How to Search the Yellville Court Docket
Start with the court name printed on the citation or filing. Yellville sits on two dockets, city and county. Searching by town name alone can land you with the wrong clerk. The statewide public portal is ARCourts, which covers courts on the Contexte system. District-court depth there depends on which courts participate.
- Read the citation, summons, or notice and identify “City Docket” or “County Docket,” the case number, and the appearance date.
- Search by exact case number when possible. A participant-name search can work, but same-name results require more care.
- Confirm Yellville, the right district docket, the charge or case type, and the latest filings or future events.
- For a city-docket match, call 870-449-6581. For a county-docket match, call 870-449-6030.
- If the Yellville district case is not online, ask the filing clerk about counter or mail access and any copy charge.
- Search Marion County Circuit Court only when the matter was filed, transferred, or appealed at that level.
Treat any search result as informational only. For a plain docket copy or certified disposition, ask the Yellville clerk who holds the file.
Two Yellville Court Dockets
The Arkansas Judiciary directory lists two distinct Yellville dockets. Tina M. Burleson serves as chief clerk for the County Docket at 870-449-6030. Jackie Story handles the City Docket at 870-449-6581. Both entries share P.O. Box 301 and fax 870-449-1177, though their physical service points differ.
| Yellville Docket | Clerk and Phone | Physical Service Point | Typical Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| County Docket | Tina M. Burleson, 870-449-6030 | 105 S. Berry St. | Rural county traffic and assigned district matters |
| City Docket | Jackie Story, 870-449-6581 | Yellville City Hall, 112 Hwy. 62 East | Yellville city traffic and ordinance matters |
The court label on your paperwork matters more than the mailing address. Give the clerk the exact Yellville docket name and case number, and the right office can pull the record without passing you along.
Note: Yellville city and county docket entries may share local context, but they are separate court records with separate direct phone lines.
The Yellville Municipal Court
The Yellville city docket works as a department of Marion County District Court. District Judge Jodi Carney serves Yellville along with Bull Shoals and Flippin. This limited-jurisdiction layer handles traffic, misdemeanors, preliminary felony events, smaller civil matters, and small claims. Arkansas law and the district plan set the assignments.
For city traffic and ordinance records, the city clerk is the direct source. The Yellville city docket is not the Circuit Court file. A felony may begin with a district event. But once filed at circuit level, the case belongs to the Marion County Circuit Clerk.
A judge's chambers address tells you less. Check the state directory, your citation, or the latest case event instead. Rather than guessing from a regional listing, confirm the Yellville hearing location with the clerk.
The County Docket is also a District Court docket, not the County Clerk's record book. In Yellville, one elected official holds both roles. The County Clerk and Circuit Clerk jobs belong to that same person. Tina M. Burleson's district County Docket stays a separate court file channel. Name the case type. Use the words printed on the notice. That keeps a request from drifting among three different local clerk functions.
Yellville Court Records at City Hall
The official Yellville government page names Jackie Story as court clerk and places the city service point at Yellville City Hall. It also covers city government and how fines can be paid.
That page backs the city-specific route: call Jackie Story's Yellville city docket at 870-449-6581 before requesting a copy or trusting a payment status.
For broader context on the city's public buildings and government, the official City of Yellville home page is the source to check.
Where to go: City Hall is the service point for the Yellville City Docket. The District Court counter on South Berry Street handles the county-level docket instead.
Yellville Court Dates and Settings
The Yellville courts post no separate daily docket calendar. Your citation or court notice lists the date first. ARCourts may show a future event if the district case is available there. Any conflict or late change, though, has to be resolved by the current Yellville clerk.
| Case or Citation Number | Copy it exactly from the Yellville notice; no local number mask is published |
|---|---|
| Docket | City Docket or County Docket, which determines the clerk and direct number |
| Date and Time | Use the newest notice or future event, then confirm with the proper Yellville clerk |
| Location | Follow the case notice and clerk instruction rather than assuming one Yellville address |
| Setting Type | May identify an appearance, plea, hearing, trial, review, or other event |
| Status | Read the latest filing and event sequence for a reset, continuance, or disposition |
Ask the clerk whether appearance is required and whether any changed procedure applies. A payment vendor cannot interpret a Yellville setting or court order.
Reset Yellville Court Docket Dates
A reset does not wipe the first Yellville setting from the docket chronology. An old notice can stay visible. A later continuance and a future event actually control your next appearance. Read entries in date order. Give the most weight to the newest signed order or clerk-confirmed event.
If two Yellville dates show up, never pick the one that suits you better. Call the City Docket at 870-449-6581. For the County Docket, dial 870-449-6030. Match the case label. Ask for the current date, time, place, proceeding type, and whether attendance is required.
Skipping a required setting can trigger a failure-to-appear event, a warrant, or another court-ordered consequence. If your date has passed, contact the Yellville filing court right away.
Yellville Traffic Tickets
Yellville runs two traffic dockets, not one. A citation written on a city matter heads to the City Docket. A ticket from rural Marion County goes to the separate County Docket. That docket also sits in Yellville. Before you pay, call, or mail anything, read the court line printed on the citation. The two Yellville phone numbers are not interchangeable. One wrong call can stall the whole case.
Want to contest the ticket? Follow the appearance instructions on the citation instead of paying. If you would rather pay, have the correct clerk confirm the amount first. Ask what the payment means too. Yellville publishes no universal fine schedule. There is no defensive-driving option, no deferred-disposition rule, and no stated failure-to-appear charge. The countywide split between city and rural citations is laid out in the Marion County traffic court records material. The Yellville filing clerk still has the last word. That office controls this city's case status and any certified outcome.
Yellville Court Docket Payment Portal
Yellville sends eligible fine payments to MyFinePayment or to the vendor phone line at 877-591-8768. City Hall takes credit cards too. A processing fee is added. The city publishes no full fine table. Nor is there a complete list of the fields the portal demands.
Match the jurisdiction and the ticket before you touch the portal. Then let the Yellville clerk confirm the citation and the amount. A vendor screen can take a payment. But it is not the full Yellville court docket, and it cannot produce a certified case record.
- Payment lookup
- A transaction route that finds an eligible Yellville ticket for payment.
- Court docket
- The dated Yellville court record of filings, settings, pleas, events, and disposition.
- Certified disposition
- A clerk-authenticated outcome obtained from the Yellville filing department.
Keep the receipt. Afterward, confirm that the Yellville case status shows the court's own action, since payment data and docket data do different jobs.
Yellville Court Records Stay Separate
Yellville and Marion County share law enforcement, but that partnership does not merge their dockets. The official directory still lists a Yellville City Docket and a Yellville County Docket. Each has its own clerk and phone number.
The agency on the ticket offers a hint about where it landed. The citation's court label is what actually decides. A shared police contact is no reason to assume anything. Not every Yellville ticket belongs at City Hall.
For records, ask the clerk who filed the case. That office can tell you the route. The Yellville record might come through Search ARCourts, over the counter, or by mail.
Where Yellville Cases End Up
Yellville District Court handles the limited-jurisdiction city and county matters close to home. Above it sits Circuit Court. It is the general-jurisdiction layer for felonies, larger civil cases, probate, domestic relations, and juvenile matters. The Marion County Circuit Clerk keeps those circuit files. They sit at the county courthouse. So the same dispute can live in two different buildings.
Docket flow: Yellville Municipal Court › Marion County Courts › Circuit Court (Fourteenth Judicial Circuit)
A Yellville matter can start in a district record and later appear as a distinct circuit case when the law and the filing path call for it. So search the right court. One Yellville docket will not trace the whole journey.
For a short county-level map, the Marion County court docket overview shows how the circuit and district layers divide the caseload.
Yellville Court Docket Summit Route
The district administrative plan hands Yellville work from beyond the city limits. Warrants obtained in Summit are filed in the Yellville Division. Summit has no separately listed Marion County District Court department of its own.
Read any Summit-origin notice closely. Look for the exact court and issuing agency. For a county-docket matter, call 870-449-6030. Do that unless the paper points elsewhere. A Summit ticket does not default to the Yellville City Docket. No Summit municipal docket exists to receive it.
This filing rule shows why the word "Yellville" alone tells you little. The words City Docket, County Docket, or the specific department set the next step. Check the document for them.
Yellville Court Docket Drop Box
Yellville's payment information mentions a parking-lot drop box. A box built for payments is not an approved channel for court filings, certified-copy orders, evidence, or papers holding sensitive details. Call Jackie Story's Yellville City Docket before dropping in anything court-related. Ask which payment types are accepted. Then ask how to label the item, when it counts as received, and whether a different delivery method is required.
County Docket business belongs on Tina M. Burleson's line instead. The city payment page does not merge the two Yellville court counters. It does not bless delivery to the wrong clerk.
Note: Confirm first with the correct Yellville clerk. Use the drop box only for a transaction that clerk has confirmed it can accept.
Public Access to Yellville Court Records
You can search public Yellville court records through Search ARCourts when the filing department takes part, or request them from the proper clerk. The portal may show parties, the judge, filings, charges or dispositions, future events, judgments, and some linked documents. Treat it as a research view. It is not an official-use copy.
Key Rules:
Arkansas Supreme Court Administrative Order 19 governs court-record access and removes defined confidential case information from public internet access.
Administrative Order 19.1 governs confidential data in court administrative records and sealed unredacted versions where required.
Ark. Code Ann. §25-19-105 sets public-record inspection and copying rules and exemptions under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
A blank Yellville result can come from many things. It might be a spelling slip, the wrong docket, a district that sits out of the portal, older material, or a lawful restriction. Juvenile, sealed, and confidential content never opens like an ordinary public adult case. Ask the Yellville clerk for the lawful access route. Request certification when you need formal proof.
For a city record, call Jackie Story before visiting City Hall or mailing to P.O. Box 301. For a county-docket record, call Tina M. Burleson before using that same published post-office box. Ask about public status and the exact copy. Also ask about plain or certified form, the charge, payment method, and delivery time. Yellville publishes no certified-copy fee or turnaround. Get the clerk's confirmed instructions before sending money.