Catron County Court Dockets
A court docket is the court's schedule or register of actions. For a hearing search, it may show the hearing date, time, court, case number, party names, hearing type, and the judicial officer or division when published. For a case-history search, a docket can also mean the chronological event list inside a case file. Catron County uses both concepts: the Seventh Judicial District publishes separate near-term hearing docket pages, and New Mexico Case Lookup can show public case events when a case is searchable.
The difference matters. A docket can tell someone whether a hearing is set, continued, or tied to a specific case number, but it does not replace the full case record. Motions, orders, exhibits, divorce decrees, judgments, criminal judgment and sentence documents, and certified copies require re:SearchNM access, a clerk request, or an NM Courts IPRA request when public and available.
Catron District Court Docket
The dedicated Catron County District Court docket is the official near-term hearing schedule for the District Court location in Reserve. The page states that hearings scheduled for the current day plus six days in the future are available. It also warns that hearing details may contain omissions and that the Court makes no warranty regarding the information. That warning is practical in Catron County because rural travel distances can be long and a hearing change may matter before someone drives to Reserve.
District Court is the general-jurisdiction trial court. In Catron County it may hear felony criminal matters, higher civil disputes, real property issues, domestic relations, probate litigation, mental health matters, juvenile matters, appeals from lower courts, and administrative appeals. The court address is 101 Main Street, Reserve, NM 87830, with hours Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The filing and clerk-handling route, however, is the Socorro District Court Clerk's Office at 200 Church Street, Socorro, NM 87801, phone 575-835-0050 ext. 12.
The following image comes from the official Catron County District Court docket page.
Use that page for the official short-range District Court hearing calendar, then call the clerk if the posted schedule and a notice from the court do not match.
Catron Magistrate Court Docket
The Catron County Magistrate Court docket is a separate official schedule. Like the District Court docket, it shows hearings scheduled for the current day plus six days in the future. Magistrate Court handles limited-jurisdiction matters, including misdemeanors, DWI/DUI, other traffic violations, landlord-tenant cases, civil claims within the $0 to $10,000 range, and felony preliminary hearings.
Reserve Magistrate Court is listed at 698A NM-12, Reserve, NM 87830, phone 575-533-6474. The county sheriff court-phone page also identifies the physical location as the Junction of Hwy 12 & 435, Reserve, and lists fax 575-533-6623. If a hearing involves a traffic citation, misdemeanor, DWI, landlord-tenant case, or preliminary felony event, the Magistrate Court docket is often the more relevant near-term schedule than the District Court docket.
This image is from the official Catron County Magistrate Court docket page.
Checking the correct docket first prevents a common mistake: looking for a lower-court traffic or misdemeanor hearing on the District Court schedule.
Find Catron County Dockets Online
For upcoming hearings, start with the two Seventh Judicial District docket pages. For a broader case-history view, use New Mexico Case Lookup. Case Lookup can be searched by name, case number, or DWI name, and the name-search path includes court type, court location, case category, and filing or hearing date ranges. That makes it useful when the exact docket page does not show a hearing or when the goal is to connect a hearing to the larger case history.
- Choose the District Court docket for general-jurisdiction matters or the Magistrate Court docket for traffic, misdemeanor, DWI, landlord-tenant, and limited civil matters.
- Check whether the hearing falls within the current day plus six future days.
- Use the case number and party names to compare the docket page with Case Lookup.
- Call 575-835-0050 ext. 12 for District Court issues or 575-533-6474 for Magistrate Court issues if the hearing cannot be confirmed.
The New Mexico Courts fine and fee payment image below comes from the official online fine and fee payment portal.
Payment access is related to docket work because a hearing notice or docket event may lead to fines, fees, or compliance deadlines, but payment does not replace checking the court schedule.
Sample Catron Docket Entry
The research did not capture a live Catron case entry for republication, so the field inventory below reflects the official New Mexico case and re:SearchNM guidance rather than an invented sample case. A docket entry should be read as court status information, not as proof that a document has been certified or that a hearing will never change.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Entry Date | The date the event or filing was entered in the court system. |
| Hearing Date | The date and time set for a hearing when one is scheduled and public. |
| Event Type | The court action, such as arraignment, motion hearing, trial setting, continuance, order, or payment event. |
| Case Number | The unique number that should be used when calling the clerk or requesting documents. |
| Party Filing | The party, attorney, or court actor associated with a filing or event where shown. |
| Document Link | A document reference may appear in document-capable systems, but Case Lookup itself does not provide pleadings or certified copies. |
Courts Publishing Catron Dockets
The official online docket pages identified for Catron County are the District Court and Magistrate Court schedules under the Seventh Judicial District. A possible Reserve municipal location value appears in Case Lookup, but no official Reserve municipal court page or contact was found in the research sources, so it should not be treated as a confirmed local municipal docket page.
- Catron County District Court: general-jurisdiction District Court hearings at the Reserve court location, with filings through Socorro.
- Reserve Magistrate Court: limited-jurisdiction hearings for misdemeanors, DWI/DUI, traffic, landlord-tenant, limited civil claims, and preliminary felony matters.
- New Mexico Case Lookup: broader public case-event searching by name, case number, DWI name, court type, location, and date filters.
Docket vs. Full Case Record
A Catron County docket is the best tool for hearing timing and short-form event review. A full case record is the better tool for legal content. If the need is a motion, order, divorce decree, judgment and sentence, certified copy, or hearing audio, the docket page is only the starting point. Use re:SearchNM if eligible or contact the District Court Clerk, Magistrate Court, or NM Courts IPRA portal depending on where the record is maintained.
| Docket | Full Case Record | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Schedule or event list | Case index, filings, orders, documents, and certified copies where available |
| Access | Dedicated near-term docket pages and Case Lookup | re:SearchNM, court clerk, or NM Courts IPRA |
| Use | Track hearing dates and case movement | Review legal filings, outcomes, judgments, and records for official use |
Read Catron County Dockets
Read docket information conservatively. A hearing may be continued, vacated, reset, or affected by a sealed matter. If Case Lookup and the Seventh Judicial District docket page show different information, call the court before travel. This is especially important in Catron County because the courthouse in Reserve and the District Court filing office in Socorro serve different functions, and a user may need the hearing court rather than the filing counter.
Case Lookup also has important display limits. Records before June 1997 may not appear. Juvenile criminal cases and Family Violence Protection Act order-of-protection cases are not displayed in public Case Lookup under the effective dates captured in the research. Municipal data is limited. Case Lookup is free and does not require registration, but it does not provide documents. Those limits explain why a missing docket event is not the same as proof that no court activity exists.