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Pecos County Court Docket Searches

Start with the court, not the name. Felony cases, district civil matters, and family law sit with the Pecos County District Clerk. County-level criminal, civil, juvenile, probate, and mental-health cases belong to the Pecos County Clerk. A traffic ticket or Class C matter stays with the justice or municipal court that issued it. Federal cases go through PACER and the federal clerk, not either county office.

Copy the cause or citation number exactly as printed. Every letter, zero, and punctuation mark matters. Without that number, narrow a name search by court, case category, and filing or offense date. Pecos County publishes no local combined criminal-and-civil search form. The statewide starting point is re:SearchTX. It needs registration for live case and document access and shows only participating, integrated records.

1. Identify the court named on the citation, order, or notice.
2. Search re:SearchTX by cause number, then use county, court, party, and date filters that are available.
3. Open the matching result and compare its court, case type, filing date, and status.
4. Read events in date order and check for a later reset or continuance.
5. Ask the responsible clerk for a specific plain or certified document when the portal is incomplete.

Pecos County Has Two Clerks

A failed Pecos County docket search usually traces back to the split-clerk system. Darla Cude serves as District Clerk. She handles the 83rd and 112th Judicial District Courts. Liz Chapman serves as County Clerk. She covers the constitutional County Court categories reported through the clerk's Odyssey system. Lower-court records are separate. The justice courts plus the Fort Stockton and Iraan municipal courts keep their own.

The county district-offices directory lays out how Pecos County's two district courts connect with the District Clerk.

Treat the listing as a court and contact directory. It is not a live Pecos County court docket, and it cannot tell you whether a hearing was reset.

Court Dockets: What They Show

Think of a Pecos County court docket as a chronological index. It can show the forum, case category, parties and their roles, filing date, settings, filed motions, orders, disposition, and links to public documents. One caution applies. The event line is not always the document itself. A line saying a motion was filed does not mean the judge granted it. The same goes for status. A portal status of "disposed" says nothing about the result.

A certified judgment, a filed pleading, a reporter's transcript, and a docket sheet are four different products. The Pecos County court case records route explains which office supplies each one.

re:SearchTX and Pecos Dockets

re:SearchTX works as the statewide search layer for participating Texas courts. Filtering runs by county, court, case, and party. Its official materials also describe case data, upcoming hearings, docketed events, and eligible public document links wherever a clerk's system is integrated. An account is required for live search. Pecos County's own County Clerk verification names Tyler Odyssey as its case-management system. No official source confirms full availability. Every Pecos County case type, lower court, old file, or document image is not guaranteed there.

A blank Pecos County docket is not the end. Test the court, the spelling, the date, and the number. Then try the lower-court portal or call the clerk. The gap may come from indexing, integration, age, restriction, or a plain search mismatch.

Pecos County Courts and Their Dockets

Texas trial-court jurisdiction decides where any Pecos County court docket lives. The 83rd and 112th District Courts hold concurrent jurisdiction in the county. The constitutional County Court handles county-level categories. Those categories sit within its authority. Four active JP precinct contacts cover justice matters. The Fort Stockton and Iraan municipal courts hear city ordinance and fine-only Class C cases.

The official Texas trial-court overview gives the statewide framework. Dollar limits and exceptions overlap, so the court printed on the filing remains the best clue.

Pecos County JP Docket Scale

Pecos County's lower-court volume is serious business. The official FY2024 justice-court report lists 22,253 total cases active at the opening of the reporting period, with 4,331 added and 3,577 disposed, leaving 23,064 active at closing. The criminal category, which includes high-volume Class C and traffic work, accounted for 20,565 opening cases and 4,070 added cases. Keep perspective on these figures. The aggregate counts identify no people. They should not be compared directly with felony activity.

Precinct 1 carried most of the reported justice activity. That local scale is exactly why a Pecos County search must include the JP level rather than assuming every case shows up through a district or county clerk.

Court Dates and Settings in Pecos County

Pecos County posts no official countywide daily docket. There is no weekly calendar PDF, permanent remote-hearing page, or open hearing-calendar portal either. Start with the latest citation, summons, notice, or signed order you hold. If re:SearchTX shows a setting, compare it with later events. Then call the assigned coordinator or lower-court clerk. Remember that a reset, pass, or continuance keeps the old date in the docket history. The live setting simply moves elsewhere.

Civil setting coordination sits with the court administrator under the Pecos local rules. A jury-setting request goes straight to that administrator. Include the case style, number, county, and contact details. It is not filed with the County Clerk as a calendar request. For the full confirmation chain covering district, county, JP, and municipal matters, see the Pecos County court schedule page.

Note: Statutory district-court term dates describe court terms, not the hearing date in a specific Pecos County case.

Pecos County Office Addresses Differ

The name "Pecos County Courthouse" will not lead you to every docket counter. The public courthouse reference is 103 W Callaghan in Fort Stockton. County Clerk work is listed at 200 S Nelson, Suite 3. District Clerk and district-court work sits at 400 S Nelson. JP offices scatter across Fort Stockton, Iraan, Imperial, and Sheffield. A phone call first can save a long drive. Pecos County spans about 4,764 square miles.

Docket Access Under Texas Law

Court records in Texas live outside the Public Information Act that covers most state agencies. Access runs through Texas Rule of Judicial Administration 12 instead. Case-record rules, statutes, and whatever orders a court has signed apply too. That framework governs what you may inspect and copy. Nobody has to build a new record for you, either. Expect some material to stay hidden or redacted. That includes sealed filings, juvenile files, and protected identifiers. Certain family and mental-health records, plus expunction or nondiscorder material, may also be withheld.

A blank docket result settles nothing. It does not prove a sealed case exists, and it does not prove that no Pecos County case exists. Ask the custodian whether a redacted public copy exists, and ask which rule, statute, or order controls any denial.

Pecos County Docket Terms

Short court terms are not synonyms. On a Pecos County docket, one word can mark a request while another marks a ruling, and mixing them up turns a helpful record into a false conclusion. Keep the label exactly as written. When an order is linked or on file, read it before drawing any meaning from the entry alone.

Setting

A scheduled appearance or hearing that may later be reset.

Disposed

A reporting status showing the case is no longer active; the judgment explains why.

DWOP

Dismissal for want of prosecution in a civil matter.

Nonsuit

A plaintiff’s voluntary termination, subject to court action.

Deferred disposition

A conditional result, not the same as sealing or immediate dismissal.

Certified copy

A clerk-authenticated document; an event view or receipt is not certified.

The clerk publishes no local abbreviation list and no sample docket for Pecos County. Treat short codes as unknown until the clerk or an official legend confirms what they mean.

How Clerks Keep Docket Records

The Pecos County District Clerk and the County Clerk each take requests by phone, fax, email, mail, or a visit in person. Neither office posts an online court-copy form. A strong written request names the court, the exact cause number, the case style if you have it, the document and its event date, page range, plain or certified format, how you want delivery, and your contact information. One more step saves trouble. Call for the current fee total before you send any money.

Pecos County Copy Costs

Texas Government Code Chapter 51 sets the framework for clerk fees, but the Pecos County office handling your request should quote the current total. Treat the amounts below as baselines. Postage, unusual retrieval, exemplification, and local processing can all change what you pay. Also note that buying a document through re:SearchTX does not make it a certified copy.

Pecos County Docket Technology

Pecos County's electronic court docket tools have evolved over several generations. Texas Supreme Court orders approved local electronic transmission procedures back in 1992. They were amended in 1996. Those early rules covered how clerk papers moved between offices, not today's search options. The county currently uses Tyler Odyssey. eFileTexas handles filings statewide, and re:SearchTX adds a public search layer where counties have integrated it.

A 2024 statewide directive put smaller counties on a November 2025 integration schedule. The OCA has since reported broad integration with near-real-time case data. Pecos County has no confirmed go-live date, though. Even so, online coverage is one useful channel. It is not a full inventory of every older file or lower-court docket.

City-by-City Court Dockets in Pecos County

Census and official place data list two incorporated cities in Pecos County. Each keeps its municipal docket separate from county and district court records. Fort Stockton offers an official vendor route for municipal citations. Iraan runs a phone-first municipal process. But JP Precinct 3 there runs its own citation-and-cause search for county justice matters in the same city.

Imperial, Sheffield, Coyanosa, Bakersfield, and Belding appear on the county communities list, but none is an incorporated city. They get no city pages here. Their justice-court routing still matters, though, including JP4 in Imperial and JP6 in Sheffield.

Pecos County Justice Court Contacts

Each Pecos County justice court keeps its own docket at the precinct level, so a case lookup starts with the precinct that heard the matter. The county's JP Precinct 1 page shows how that decentralized setup works in practice.

Addresses are simple to pin down. JP1 sits at 200 S Nelson in Fort Stockton, JP3 at 508 S Farr in Iraan, JP4 at 402 W Ferguson in Imperial, and JP6 at 321 Pine in Sheffield. Your citation names the court handling the case. When the Pecos County docket search does not surface it online, phone that precinct with the citation or cause number and the date.

Map and Directions to the Pecos County District Clerk / Judicial Center

The 83rd and 112th Judicial District Courts, which hold concurrent general-jurisdiction authority over Pecos County, keep their felony, district civil, and family files with District Clerk Darla Cude at the Judicial Center, 400 S Nelson in Fort Stockton. This is a separate address from the county's namesake courthouse building at 103 W Callaghan; the County Clerk's constitutional county-court records are kept a few blocks away at 200 S Nelson, Suite 3.

No official page reviewed documents public terminals, parking, security screening, or ADA entrance details for the Judicial Center, so call the District Clerk before traveling, especially for a certified copy, sealed file, or a case with no cause number.