Crane County Civil Docket Searches
District civil and family filings live with the Crane County District Clerk. That office serves the 109th Judicial District Court. The county also points to re:SearchTX Court Records Search. Its live landing page can return a 403 error. Confirm access and Crane coverage before relying on it. Constitutional county civil and probate matters belong to the County Clerk. Justice-court cases run through the JP clerk, packet, counter, and other local channels.
Gather the exact cause number, party names, filing year, case type, and court. Then try each channel in order:
- Identify the district, county, or justice-court venue.
- Try re:SearchTX by case or hearing when it is available.
- Match location, category, filed date, and party roles.
- Read the register of actions, settings, and orders.
- Call, visit, mail, or send a precise written request to the correct clerk.
Civil Dockets: What They Show
Think of a docket as an activity history. It does not prove any allegation true. An official representative re:SearchTX docket guide shows how the statewide system organizes civil data. It is not a Crane case, but it maps the fields you will see in a real Crane County civil docket result.
| Case information | Location, category, case type, and filed date. |
|---|---|
| Parties | Plaintiff, defendant, respondent, estate, or other roles and attorneys where shown. |
| Filings | Petitions, answers, motions, exhibits, and documents, subject to access limits. |
| Events | Dated actions with type, comments, pages, price, documents, and status where available. |
| Judgment or order | A signed disposition, dismissal, or ruling; certification must come from the clerk. |
A cause number is the identifier the court assigns, and you must copy it exactly as printed. No single universal civil case-number pattern applies across Crane County, so inventing a CV example would mislead you.
Find a Crane Civil Setting
Need only a hearing date? Skip the full file. The official 109th District Court schedule covers the full term. It breaks the term into non-jury, civil jury, criminal jury, and special-setting periods. It is a planning calendar for the regional court. It is not a party-level Crane docket. Jury dates can shift with county docket conditions.
For a district matter, call the 109th coordinators at 432-524-1419 with the cause number handy. For a JP matter, follow the setting notice and call the JP clerk. After an answer, the civil packet says, the judge sets the trial docket and mails notice to the address of record at least 45 days before the setting unless an earlier one is allowed. The case notice and current rules always control.
Note: Confirm every Crane County civil setting with the court before you travel or face a deadline.
What Cases Fill the Civil Docket
The 109th Judicial District Court is the general-jurisdiction route. It handles Crane district civil and family cases. Texas district courts hear land-title disputes, divorce, and civil matters within statutory jurisdiction. The constitutional County Court holds the civil authority that law assigns it and handles probate. Crane's official directory lists no county court at law and no separate probate court.
Common Crane civil docket categories include:
- District civil claims involving contracts, torts, or property;
- family matters, with public access limited where law or court order requires;
- constitutional county-court civil matters within current statutory authority;
- probate or guardianship matters held by the County Clerk; and
- JP debt, small-claim, repair-and-remedy, and eviction cases.
Federal civil matters tied to Crane belong to the Western District of Texas, Midland-Odessa Division and PACER. No county clerk's docket covers them.
Crane Civil Filing Volume
The FY2024 district activity report splits civil and family into separate rows. Crane's civil row shows 42 matters added. It lists 21 disposed and 172 active pending at period end. The family row shows 23 added, 18 disposed, and 118 active pending. These are fiscal-year reporting categories, not current party-level case counts.
"Disposed" means the case was resolved or closed within the OCA reporting period. It says nothing about who won, the judgment, or any dismissal or settlement. To understand one case, pull the docket and the signed order.
Hearings on the Civil Docket
A civil setting might be a non-jury hearing, civil jury trial, special setting, or lower-court trial. A motion entry alone does not set a hearing. Check the date, time, court, event type, and the latest reset or continuance. The regional 109th calendar may show a civil-jury period. The case docket remains the source for the named matter.
The JP packet adds local detail. Motions must be written, signed, and filed. It also describes 10-to-21-day setting windows after filing for repair-and-remedy and eviction cases. An answer is generally due 14 days after service, or 42 days after service by publication. Deadlines affect rights. Trust the served notice and current court instructions over any packet summary, which is not legal advice.
Crane Civil Request Form Limits
Crane County's public-record request form was built for recorded instruments, not court cases. It wants an instrument number, volume and page, recorded name, and document type. Those fields fit an official-records search. They won't carry a full civil docket request on their own.
For a civil case file, spell out the details yourself. Give the court and the cause number. Add the style and the case type. Include a filing date or date range. Name the exact item you need. The docket sheet is what to request when you want the case's activity history. Petitions, motions, judgments, plain copies, and certified copies each call for their own separate request. Both the District Clerk and County Clerk pages list Room 110 at 201 W. 6th Street, P.O. Box 578, Crane, TX 79731, with the phone 432-558-3581. Confirm which office holds the file before you send any money.
Who Can See Civil Dockets
Plenty of civil docket material is open to the public in Crane County. Still, not every paper in a case file can be read by anyone. Government Code §552.0035 keeps judiciary information under Supreme Court rules and other law, so the Texas Public Information Act does not work as a blanket case-file process. Qualifying judicial records fall under Rule 12.
Key civil access rules:
Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 76a provides notice and hearing procedures for sealing court records.
Family Code §261.201 protects specified DFPS investigation information.
The Crane DFPS standing order limits public release of covered local records.
An index line you can see is not a key to everything. Exhibits, medical data, child-protection reports, and sealed filings stay closed even when the docket entry itself is public. Ask the keeper of the record which parts can be released.
Crane Civil Copies and Certification
Copies in Crane County carry set fees. The 2024 fee schedule lists $1 per copy page. Certified copies run $1 per page plus $5 certification per document, and $10 certification covers an authenticated copy. One caution: that PDF shows older clerk names. Rely on the current county page for who holds the office. Ask the clerk whether those rates still stand before you pay.
| Record form | Purpose | Published 2024 category |
|---|---|---|
| Plain copy | Readable copy without clerk certification | $1 per page |
| Certified copy | Clerk attests to the copy | $1 per page plus $5 per document |
| Authenticated copy | Higher certification category | $10 certification |
Don't read a filing-fee total in that schedule as the price of a docket sheet. Those figures cover new filings, not copies. Request a current quote tied to the exact civil record, its page count, the delivery route, and any certification you need.