Search Ochiltree County Court Dockets

How to Search the Ochiltree County Court Docket

Look first at whatever paper started the case. A notice, citation, or order will name the court. That name tells you where the Ochiltree County court docket lives. For district matters, the 84th Court Daily Docket carries the calendar. Some eligible state filings also surface through re:SearchTX. Neither tool stands in for the local clerk, though. Online coverage of Ochiltree County criminal cases can be thin, and municipal or justice matters may sit only with the court that took them in.

Armed with a cause number, you hold the best lookup key there is. Without one, gather the party's full name, the likely case type, a filing window, and the issuing court, plus any spelling variants. Then search in a deliberate order:

1. Read the source paper and identify the named court.
2. Check the 84th Court calendar or re:SearchTX when the case fits that source.
3. Match the court, county, cause number, and date before relying on a result.
4. Call or visit the correct Ochiltree County clerk when a search is empty.
5. Request a regular or certified copy when an official record is needed.

A name that pulls up a broad hit is only a lead. The court and the cause number are what separate one record from the next. And if a case opened in a city court or Justice Court, never assume the district calendar will carry it.

Four Ochiltree County Courthouse Routes

One building, many counters. The Ochiltree County courthouse at 511 S. Main Street in Perryton houses several offices. Each keeps its own docket records. The District Clerk holds 84th District Court felony, civil, and family files. County criminal, county civil, probate, mental-health, and juvenile categories stay with the County Clerk. Justice Court handles traffic, small claims, and evictions. Perryton and Booker municipal clerks keep city cases entirely apart from the county desks. The official Ochiltree County home page lays out the courthouse setting and county navigation.

That county view helps with routing, not with a combined docket search. What matters is picking the office that actually holds your case type. One phone call naming the court and cause number can save a request from landing on the wrong desk.

What a Court Docket Shows

Think of an Ochiltree County court docket as an event index. It is not the full file. Each entry ties a cause number to a court. A case style, a filing, a setting, an order, or a disposition may appear alongside it. The public interfaces here offer no sample criminal or civil register, so no invented number or private party appears in these examples. The 84th Court hearing form does show what data goes into setting an event.

Work through entries in date order. A filed motion is not a granted motion. A setting is not a judgment. The signed order, or a later entry, can change what an earlier line really means.

Ochiltree County Daily Docket Limits

The 84th District Court serves Ochiltree, Hansford, and Hutchinson Counties, so its public Daily Docket stretches past one county's cases. The related request form asks for county of hearing, date and time, title, estimated time, case number, style, type, attorneys, and interpreter needs. Those fields exist to set a hearing. They do not make the form a historical case-search tool.

Calendar entries can move, too. Local rules put settings under the court administrator. They call for details like estimated length and notice to opposing counsel. Before relying on any Ochiltree County court docket setting, confirm the county, cause number, courtroom, and event type. Also confirm with the District Clerk or the court administrator that the event is still set. The District Clerk page ties local records to the 84th Court.

The panel confirms the local contact path, even though the district court serves three counties.

Which Courts Keep Dockets

Jurisdiction decides who keeps an Ochiltree County docket. Search the wrong level and you may get nothing back even when the file exists. Texas splits its work by subject, offense level, money at issue, and place. Municipal and justice courts cover the lowest tiers. The district court holds general jurisdiction. An appeal, in turn, creates a separate record. That record sits up in the Seventh Court of Appeals District.

One person or one dispute can spawn records at several levels. Every new case or appeal brings its own court, its own number, and its own custodian.

re:SearchTX and Local Docket Gaps

After you register, re:SearchTX offers Cases, Filings, Text in Documents, and Hearings search modes. Results can be filtered, opened, exported, or saved. What you can do depends on the record and your user role. An Office of Court Administration report described broad statewide holdings and a clerk integration deadline, yet it left criminal case records out of its public repository description.

Treat the state system as one layer only. An empty screen might mean the wrong court. It could also mean lagging coverage, a sealed or confidential file, or a record type the system simply does not carry. Ochiltree County still routes felony and district matters to the District Clerk, county matters to the County Clerk, JP matters to Justice Court, and city citations to municipal staff. That fallback belongs in any complete docket search.

Finding Court Dates and Settings

A setting is a planned court event. It is not a ruling, and it may not even be the trial date. For the 84th District Court, check the Daily Docket first. Then confirm with the District Clerk at (806) 435-8054 or the court administrator at (806) 878-4022. County Court dates belong to the County Clerk. Justice Court dates should be checked at (806) 435-8020.

City citations go to whatever court the citation names. Booker publishes a Monday 1:00 p.m. court time only when court is scheduled. That general time proves nothing about any single case. Perryton posts no public city calendar on its official pages. The full Ochiltree County court calendar walks through resets and confirmation routes.

Setting

A planned hearing or court event.

Reset

A later date that replaces a prior setting.

Continuance

A court-approved delay recorded in the case.

Style

The formal caption used to identify the sides.

Ochiltree County Docket Workload

The Texas Office of Court Administration publishes an Ochiltree County district activity table for 2023. It gives workload context without any individual case. It tallies new work in four buckets: civil, family, juvenile, and criminal. These are district-level counts only. County, justice, and municipal matters sit outside the table. A "disposed" count signals neither a conviction nor a win for either side.

Family matters led the way with 116 new cases on the Ochiltree County court docket. Civil added 66, and criminal came in at 65. A spread like that means no single name search or calendar can cover the whole docket. Keep in mind that annual totals may pull in cases filed in earlier years, and the count alone tells you nothing about how any case turned out.

Public Access to Dockets

Texas draws a line between types of public-office records. The Texas Public Information Act governs government information generally, while Texas Rule of Judicial Administration 12 plus other court rules and law govern judicial records. A court-case file can be open to the public. Still, private data, sealed material, expunged files, and juvenile information stay restricted.

Request the public portion of a record. An office may withhold only the restricted part. A blank online screen proves nothing about whether a docket exists, and expunction under Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A can further shrink what remains visible.

County Records Are Not Court Dockets

The County Clerk connects searchers to CountyGovernmentRecords for land records and other official public documents. The index currently reaches back to July 1974. Anything older requires volume and page details. That portal works fine for a deed or recorded instrument. It is no substitute for a full lawsuit, criminal, justice, or municipal docket. The County Clerk records page lays out the official-record route.

The Clerk's panel keeps recorded-document access separate from the routes used for court files. Search under both names, or a single last name for a broad recorded-document result. A certified instrument needs a document number. Otherwise, give the Clerk a volume and page. For a court case, the first job is ownership. Confirm whether the County Clerk, District Clerk, Justice Court, or a municipal clerk holds it. Each office keeps its own docket files.

The Clerk and Docket Records

Ochiltree County District Clerk Shawn Bogard keeps the district felony, civil, and family files. County Clerk Sandra I. Limas separately handles County Court categories and official public records. Both offices sit in the courthouse, though their hours and duties differ. A sharp request names the court, the cause number, a filing or event date, the document sought, and whether a regular or certified copy is needed. That saves the clerk a round of follow-up questions.

The Justice Court is a third local custodian, holding its own case files. Remember the division of labor. A clerk maintains and certifies the record; a judge decides motions and issues orders.

Ochiltree County Copy Costs

The County Clerk's fee schedule takes effect January 1, 2026. Copy, certification, and search charges each get their own line. These figures fit that office alone. They do not apply to every court, portal, or filing. Confirm the exact amount for the Ochiltree County docket record you need before sending money.

The Clerk's published example is a five-page certified copy. Page charges plus certification come to $10. Online image checkout and state repository fees are billed separately. A public-information request can also generate charges. Describe the record and date range with care. Never carry a fee from one office over to a different record type. Justice civil filing and service charges, traffic amounts, and court-document copy fees all follow their own rules.

When Ochiltree County Search Fails

A blank result does not mean there is no case. Double-check the issuing court, the county, spelling, the cause number, and the filing period. Booker matters trip people up. Booker spans Lipscomb and Ochiltree Counties, so misrouting is easy. Criminal cases may not surface through the statewide public layer described by OCA. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, and sensitive records can be withheld outright. The Ochiltree County contact directory lists offices that can redirect a focused request.

This routing panel helps once the case type is clear but the custodian is not. Keep sensitive identifiers out of ordinary email. Send them another way only if an office directs you to a secure method. State what you seek. Ask which channel is approved. Then verify any event against the live clerk record before relying on it.

Court Dockets by City in Ochiltree County

Ochiltree County has two incorporated places with their own courts. Perryton Municipal Court and Booker Municipal Court handle city ordinance and fine-only Class C matters apart from the county clerks. Neither official city site offers a public case-number docket search. So the phone route matters, along with the exact court printed on the citation.

County-seat status does not fold Perryton city records into county files. By the same token, a Booker place name alone cannot pick a county. Work from the named court and the citation number. Perryton City Hall answers at (806) 435-4014. Booker routes citation and ordinance fine questions to (806) 658-4579.

Map and Directions to the Ochiltree County Courthouse

The 84th District Court's local case files for Ochiltree County are kept by District Clerk Shawn Bogard at the Ochiltree County Courthouse, 511 S. Main Street, in Perryton. The 84th District Court's central administration sits in Stinnett, so a specific setting can be controlled by that court's calendar even though the case file itself stays with the Ochiltree District Clerk. The County Clerk, Suite 8 of the same courthouse, is a separate custodian for County Court records.

Hours are split by lunch Monday through Thursday and end early on Friday, so call before traveling. The county has not published a parking, security-screening, or ADA/accessibility policy for the courthouse.