Find Armstrong County Court Dates

The Armstrong County Court Calendar

Armstrong County publishes two online schedule routes. The 47th District Court docket page posts civil and criminal trial docket PDFs. These cover Armstrong County cases. The Armstrong County Justice of the Peace page embeds a calendar. It serves the countywide JP court. Neither the constitutional county court nor Claude Municipal Court posts its own public calendar. Even so, an event missing online does not mean the case has no setting.

Treat the district PDFs as dated public notices. Their links shift with each trial week. The JP calendar offers Day, Week, Month, and Agenda views. You also get buttons to move between periods and a General category filter. It's a schedule only, not a name or cause-number index. Use each calendar for its own court. Then verify the hearing with the office handling that case.

Armstrong JP Calendar Controls

The countywide JP calendar is the best recurring local calendar Armstrong County offers. You can switch views, jump to a prior or later period, print the view to PDF, save an iCal file, or subscribe through RSS. Those tools make it easier to track a listed Armstrong County court date from week to week.

An event may list a title, category, date, time, or all-day status. The public view shows no stable case-number field. It also shows no underlying case data. For a cause number, current status, or certified record, contact the JP clerk. Note: Save the date you viewed the calendar. Then check again before the hearing.

How to Find Your Court Date

Begin with the paperwork: your citation, cause number, filed notice, or attorney message. Those records usually name the court. From there, follow the Armstrong County channel that matches it. These steps cover every documented route.

1. For district civil or felony matters, open the 47th docket page and select the current Armstrong PDF.
2. For traffic, eviction, small civil, or another JP matter, inspect the JP calendar and have the citation or cause number ready.
3. Try re:SearchTX. If the session is blocked or Armstrong detail is absent, use local routes.
4. Call or visit the District Clerk for a district file or County Clerk for a county matter. A mailed inquiry should identify the case and record.
5. Ask assigned counsel about the operative notice. Confirm the date, time, hearing type, and place with the clerk or coordinator.

Armstrong County confirms no dedicated public terminal. Ask before planning to use one. Courthouse notices or docket call may also control, and the county publishes no complete daily printed calendar.

Armstrong County Setting Locations

A 47th District Court setting creates a local trap. The court serves Armstrong, Potter, and Randall Counties. State personnel material places the judge and coordinator offices in Amarillo, yet Armstrong docket notices identify the courthouse in Claude. One civil notice even called its docket in Amarillo. No single office address answers every setting question.

Official county sources even disagree on whether the courthouse sits at 100 or 101 Trice Street. Call the county at (806) 553-2860, the clerk at (806) 553-2861, or the 47th contact before you drive. The county publishes no parking, security, or accessibility guide.

Reading a Court Setting

A setting tells you when the court expects a step. It doesn't always mean trial. Read the heading and instructions around the row, not just the date, because the Armstrong civil and criminal PDFs attach trial-week dates, deadlines, and carry-over rules to their entries.

Civil rows may show case style, counsel, cause number, and jury information. Criminal rows list trial number, jail cause number, offense, and participants. A listed charge is only an allegation, never proof of guilt.

Armstrong Docket Call Terms

Wording on an Armstrong County court calendar can change what a party must actually do. These plain meanings keep a calendar event from being mistaken for a final hearing.

Docket call

An event used to check case status and readiness, often before trial week.

Trial week

The period in which listed cases may be reached, subject to court order.

Announcement

A statement about readiness made by the method and deadline in the notice.

Carry-over

A matter not reached moves to a later docket rather than ending.

Continuance

A request or order moving a proceeding to a later date.

One civil notice allowed a timely email readiness announcement to replace an in-person docket-call appearance, under its own terms. That rule is notice-specific. The criminal notice required plea agreements before trial and moved pretrial motions off trial morning. Note: Rely on the current Armstrong notice. An older PDF may describe a past trial week.

Resets, Continuances, and Cancellations

A reset changes a setting. A continuance is the court-approved delay that may produce a new date. A cancellation removes an event but doesn't dismiss the case. Armstrong district notices demand close attention to timing. The civil notice said contested continuances must be heard by docket call. Agreed motions and signed orders could go in earlier.

Cases not reached may carry to the next docket. A downloaded PDF or iCal copy won't update itself after a change. Reopen the official calendar, review e-file notices, and call the court coordinator or clerk. Never read a disappeared event as a dismissal. Ask whether a new setting, signed order, or later docket controls.

Verify an Armstrong Setting

Before you travel, compare the schedule with your case notice. One short call resolves the two biggest Armstrong County risks: a changed date and the Claude-or-Amarillo confusion. Give the clerk enough detail to locate the matter, without asking for legal advice.

• Cause or citation number and exact court
• Hearing type, date, time, and location
• Whether attendance is in person or remote
• Any readiness or announcement deadline
• Whether a continuance, cancellation, or carry-over was entered
• Documents, plea, or payment required before appearance

The combined clerk office lists 100 Trice Street, P.O. Box 309, Claude, open Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and closed Friday. Confirm the conflicting street number when you call. Claude Municipal Court matters belong with the City of Claude, not automatically with the JP.

What To Do If You Miss a Setting

Move fast. Call the clerk or coordinator of the court named on your notice. Ask where the case stands and what comes next. If you have a lawyer, tell that lawyer the same day. A JP citation moves a bit differently. Have the citation or cause number in hand when you call. Note that the JP page treats the appearance date as the deadline for a written plea to reach the office. A plea mailed on that date can arrive too late.

The 47th criminal notice carries a warning of its own. Counsel or client who fails to appear without an excuse risks bond forfeiture. Since no single response fits every court in Armstrong County, take your instructions from whichever court actually holds the case.

Armstrong Calendar Access Boundaries

A court calendar is scheduling information, nothing more. It is not a certified case history. Sealed matters, protected juvenile information, and details withheld by law may be left out. And a calendar can never prove disposition, custody, payment, or guilt. When you need the filed record, ask the clerk that holds the case.

Two legal routes govern access, and they run on separate tracks. The Texas Public Information Act covers county administrative records. Court case access follows court rules and other law. Rule of Judicial Administration 12 governs non-adjudicative judicial records. Neither route obliges an office to build a record or research your request without end. So name what you want: an identified docket, order, report, or file component.

Appeals take yet another path. Armstrong County sits in the Seventh Court of Appeals, whose docket is separate. Federal cases live in PACER, not on the county calendar.

Armstrong County Calendar Office Map

Which office you call depends on the court named on the notice. District matters belong to the District Clerk or the 47th coordinator. County criminal, probate, and county-filed civil cases all start with one office. That office is the combined County and District Clerk. Traffic, eviction, and small civil settings usually route to the countywide JP. A Claude municipal citation goes to City Hall. Match the office to the court. That works far better than searching by the county name alone.

One caution before you dial. Ask the office to confirm the current setting. Do not ask it to predict what the court will do. Clerks handle record and schedule information, but they cannot give legal advice. If you are represented and two dates conflict, get those dates to your lawyer right away.