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Choose the Right Upshur County Clerk

For Upshur County court records, identify the court level before requesting a file. The District Clerk maintains records connected to the 115th District Court, including felony matters. The County Clerk provides county-level judicial record access and handles misdemeanor criminal cases within its responsibilities.

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District Clerk or County Clerk?

Case / record need Starting office Why
Felony district-court matter Upshur County District Clerk District Clerk page identifies 115th District Court records and felony responsibilities
County-level misdemeanor matter Upshur County County Clerk County Clerk’s judicial responsibilities include misdemeanor criminal cases
District civil or family case Upshur County District Clerk Custodian for 115th District Court civil, family and tax cases, alongside felony cases
County civil, probate or guardianship matter Upshur County County Clerk County-court and probate records; the clerk provides civil/probate/guardianship filing information
Unknown court level Identify case type and court first Prevents sending the request to the wrong clerk
Process

A case-first search sequence

  1. 01
    Identify the case type

    Felony and misdemeanor routes can point to different clerk offices.

  2. 02
    Search or contact the matching clerk

    Use the District Clerk for district-court records and the County Clerk for county-level judicial records. On the County Clerk page, choose Judicial Records for January 1, 1836 through February 28, 2025, or the separate March 1, 2025–present portal. Use the case date to select the search; do not use the property-records link for a court case.

  3. 03
    Preserve the case number

    Once found, use the case number for document requests and later verification. Ask the owning clerk for the named filing, order or judgment, whether it is publicly available, and the copy/certification charge and delivery method. For help, call the District Clerk at 903-843-5031 or County Clerk at 903-843-4015; a portal hit does not itself supply a certified copy or authorize restricted-record access.

Context

“Upshur County court records” is broader than one clerk office

County-level court research is easiest when the user starts with case type. The official Upshur County pages separate District Clerk and County Clerk functions, so a generic county query should not collapse those offices into one source.

A docket or case summary can help locate the matter, but the document you need may be a specific filing, order or judgment. Name the document when requesting a copy instead of asking for an undefined “background record.”

Prepare

Useful case identifiers

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    Case number

    Best identifier once known.

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    Party name

    Use the spelling in the court record.

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    Approximate filing year

    Helps narrow older cases.

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    Case type

    Felony, misdemeanor, civil, family or another category affects routing.

Identity caution
Court routing is not identity proof
A same-name Upshur County case should be checked against case-specific identifiers before it is attributed to a particular person.

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