Searching the Clarksville Court Docket
Search ARCourts is the free first stop. If a citation, notice, or prior filing shows the exact case number, choose Cases. Choose Participants when all you have is a name. Filters let you narrow a Clarksville docket search by Johnson County, court location, case type, and filing period. Clarksville District Court coverage varies by record. A blank result means call the Clarksville court, not that the case does not exist.
Check the case number, court, description, filing date, status, and judge before opening a record. Inside, read future events and docket entries side by side. The event panel may list a coming hearing. The entry list may hold a later reset, continuance, order, or disposition. Search ARCourts is informational only and never counts as legal notice.
- Copy the full case or citation number and identify Clarksville as the named department.
- Search by number, or use a participant name with Johnson County and court filters.
- Compare the matching case summary, events, offenses or civil type, and dated entries.
- If a citation payment is intended, use the official state payment selector only after confirming the case.
- Call the Clarksville clerk at 479-754-8533 to confirm the setting, location, or record request.
Clarksville Court Docket Number Codes
Lower-court case numbers separate the city and county channels in Clarksville. Search ARCourts tags Clarksville city traffic or criminal matters with CKC. It tags county traffic or criminal matters with CKS. Keep the prefix attached to the digits. Drop it and you lose the court route that makes the lookup precise.
These codes are not Circuit Court felony numbers like 36CR-YY-sequence. A preliminary matter in the lower court can carry its own record. So can a later Johnson County felony. When a case moves between levels, search both numbers. Neither result stands in for the full history of the other.
- CKC
- Clarksville city traffic or criminal case-number family.
- CKS
- Clarksville county traffic or criminal case-number family.
- Future event
- The portal's label for a coming Clarksville court setting, which must be confirmed with the Clarksville court.
- Docket entry
- A dated index item for a Clarksville filing or court action, not always the full document.
Clarksville Municipal Court Basics
Arkansas's current structure calls this forum the Clarksville Department of Johnson County District Court. Its docket covers county and city traffic and criminal matters, civil cases, small claims, time-pay reviews, and circuit referrals under the district plan. Chief Clerk Miranda Reardon is the local contact. That wide mix sets Clarksville apart from the Coal Hill and Lamar departments. The plan limits those departments to traffic and criminal work.
Older papers may say District Court of Clarksville or lean on municipal-court history. The Clarksville code records an intercity agreement under Arkansas law and a countywide judicial election. Current state structure governs where records live. But that history explains why names shift across older filings.
The Johnson County courts listing puts the Clarksville District Court beside four Circuit Court divisions. Treat the structure as a routing hint, not proof that every Clarksville case stays local. The District Court clerk holds the lower-court mix. Circuit Clerk records begin once a felony, major civil, domestic-relations, or juvenile matter enters the general trial court.
| Clarksville docket | Local role | Where to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Traffic or criminal | City and county cases, pleas, arraignments, pretrials, and trials | Clarksville District Court clerk |
| Civil or small claims | Limited civil work assigned to the Clarksville department | Clarksville District Court clerk |
| Circuit referral or time-pay | Special scheduled review work in the district plan | Clerk and latest court notice |
Clarksville Court Docket Location Check
The Clarksville District Court department sits at 301 Porter Industrial Road, Clarksville, AR 72830. The clerk line is 479-754-8533 and the fax is 479-754-6014. County material also lists other Clarksville court and clerk addresses. A clerk's address is not always the courtroom where your case gets called. Phone ahead.
Give the Clarksville clerk your case number. Say whether the visit is for a hearing, record inspection, payment, or another court task. Then confirm the street address for that purpose. Skip the questionable ZIP shown beside one county office listing. The Johnson County departments page is the official directory, but a direct call settles which listed place applies.
Location check: A Clarksville clerk address and the court setting location may differ. Confirm the hearing site with the clerk before leaving.
Court Dates and Settings in Clarksville
The current plan runs several docket tracks in Clarksville. Circuit referrals are set for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. Show-cause matters come on the fourth Tuesday. Small claims and civil cases follow later that morning. Other Tuesday and Wednesday sessions handle pretrials, plea and arraignment, and trials. These are standing plan details, not a promise any specific case stays set.
Check the newest Clarksville notice or order first. Then call the clerk. An old event stays in the docket history after a reset. Search ARCourts states plainly that its display is not legal notice. Read the date, time, event type, room, and judge as separate fields.
| Date | The scheduled day shown in the event panel or latest notice. |
|---|---|
| Time | The docket-call time, which may cover several cases rather than one individual slot. |
| Location | The room or court site stated for that event, confirmed with the clerk. |
| Judge | The judicial officer associated with the setting when listed. |
| Setting Type | Circuit referral, show cause, civil, small claims, pretrial, plea, arraignment, or trial. |
Note: Standing docket days help with context, but the latest filed notice and direct court confirmation govern a specific Clarksville setting.
Clarksville Wednesday Criminal Dockets
Clarksville splits its criminal work across two Wednesday tracks. Traffic and criminal plea-and-arraignment matters land on the first and third Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. Trials on that track follow on the first Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. The second track runs traffic and criminal cases on the second and fourth Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. Pretrials sit on the second Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. Trials close that track on the fourth Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
Pay attention to the label on each entry. A plea-and-arraignment docket is one thing. A trial setting is another. A pretrial is just a readiness check. It shows neither a plea nor a verdict nor a dismissal. After any scheduled Clarksville event, read the later entries to learn whether it was held, moved, or replaced by some other result.
Typical sequence: Plea and Arraignment › Pretrial › Trial or Plea › Disposition
Traffic Tickets in Clarksville
You can look up a Clarksville citation through Search ARCourts. The district record appears there when available. For payment, the official Arkansas eTraffic and eCourtPay court selector routes money to participating courts. Treat it as a payment tool only. It is not a full docket or calendar. A payment screen cannot tell you whether a hearing moved, what plea appears, or how a charge ended.
Enter the citation number exactly as printed. If nothing matches or the department is unclear, call 479-754-8533. Paying and contesting are different roads. A payment can resolve the citation under the court's rules. Contesting keeps the case on the Clarksville court track. Ask the clerk about the current deadline and setting first. The Johnson County traffic ticket records page covers citation routes county-wide.
Clarksville Civil Docket Sessions
Clarksville runs the busiest lower-court calendar in Johnson County. Small claims and civil work appear on the fourth Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. Arkansas District Court can hear contract claims. Personal-property damage or recovery claims also qualify, up to $25,000. Small claims stop at $5,000. Those two numbers matter here. They, plus the case type, separate this local route from a major civil case in Circuit Court.
A civil setting proves nothing by itself. The Clarksville docket still has to show service, responses, and orders. Search for the complaint, summons, service entry, motions, and signed rulings. Remember that a motion is only a request. A judgment or order is what records the court's decision. When a document image stays out of public view, call the Clarksville clerk. Call also to confirm the current small-claims setting.
Where Clarksville Cases Go
Clarksville keeps the local load. That means traffic, ordinance, misdemeanor, small-claims, limited civil, time-pay, and assigned referral work. Felony, major civil, domestic-relations, and juvenile cases go to Johnson County Circuit Court instead. This holds even when the events arose in Clarksville. Probate sits elsewhere. Route probate questions to the separate local office that holds them rather than guessing.
Docket flow: Clarksville District Court › Johnson County Circuit Court › Arkansas appellate courts
Appealing a District Court case usually demands action within 30 days under District Court Rule 9, and the appeal rests on a certified district-court docket sheet. Confirm any deadline right away, since they vary case by case. For a county-wide search, follow the Johnson County court docket route and contact the clerk named for that court.
Clarksville Court Docket Appeal Record
Ask the clerk for the certified docket sheet the Arkansas appeal route requires. Search ARCourts helps you find the number and the entries. It is not the certified record. Give the clerk the full case number, the style, and the copy type you need. Ask about the current fee and completion time too. Johnson County publishes no official copy-price schedule.
Remember what an appeal does. It opens a Circuit Court path. It does not erase the Clarksville docket. Keep the Clarksville district number and certified sheet beside any Circuit Court number that follows. The record may include a hearing transcript. That verbatim document comes from the court reporter, not the clerk's file.
The dated history may show a notice of appeal or a record-preparation entry. Read it alongside the certified sheet and the later Circuit Court record. The two dockets describe different levels of one route. Neither one substitutes for the other.
Clarksville Court Record Access Rules
Search ARCourts gives free remote access to public case information. Yet Arkansas Supreme Court Administrative Order 19 governs what court records you may see. Sealed material, protected identifiers, and anything made confidential by law, rule, or order stay out. A record can display neutral data without any document image. Remote access is often narrower than what you can inspect at the courthouse.
For a Clarksville District Court record, call 479-754-8533. You can visit the confirmed local court or clerk location. You can also ask whether fax at 479-754-6014 works for your request. Give the case number, document title, and filing date. Add the plain or certified status, delivery choice, and contact details. Ask about current fees and older records too. No official source promises a public lobby terminal, so confirm how you can inspect records before you go.
Key rules:
Administrative Order 19 governs Arkansas court-record access and exclusions.
The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act does not override court-specific confidentiality rules.
Clarksville Court Docket Fine History
Clarksville city code once layered a $20 extra fine. It applied on top of qualifying misdemeanor or traffic counts. It applied after a guilty plea, a no-contest plea, a finding, or bond forfeiture. The money was meant to cover the cost of housing city prisoners. It was a leftover from the old intercity court setup. Treat it as legal history. It is not the number you owe on a pending Clarksville case.
The clerk can tell you the exact amount due and break it down for your case number. An eligible payment can run through the state portal. That payment never replaces the judgment, the payment order, or the clerk's own account. Also remember that a bond forfeiture is not a ruling on the charge itself. When you read the docket, keep the offense outcome and the later financial entries apart.
Note: A code-based Clarksville fine and a current Clarksville case balance are different facts; confirm the live amount with Clarksville District Court.