Searching the Odon Court Docket
Start with Indiana MyCase. It covers both Odyssey courts serving the area, Daviess Circuit Court (code 14C01) and Daviess Superior Court (code 14D01). Bring something to search with, such as a cause number, citation number, party or business name, or attorney name. Filter the results down to Daviess County. A common name can pull up several possible cases, so check the court, case style, filing date, type, and status before trusting any match.
- Choose the public MyCase search.
- Use Case for one known cause, citation, or cross-reference number.
- Use Name for a person or business, or Attorney for a lawyer or bar number.
- Select Daviess County and add a filing range or status only when known.
- Open the case summary and read the latest events and linked papers.
- Confirm a date, balance, or copy request with the Daviess County Clerk.
MyCase caps results at 1,000 and uses a CAPTCHA. It is not the official record. Some historical and confidential material never appears there, and a missing document link only means the paper is not on that public screen.
Odon's Washington Records Route
For a paper file, Odon residents must travel to Washington, the county seat. The Daviess County Courthouse sits at 200 East Walnut Street, Washington, Indiana 47501. The Clerk's number is 812-254-8664, with weekday hours from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. A quick call can save a wasted trip. That matters most for older records, certifications, confidential case types, or transcripts. Transcripts are held by the court reporter.
Daviess County Clerk
200 East Walnut Street
Washington, IN 47501
812-254-8664
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
The Clerk holds the county's civil, criminal, traffic, estate, guardianship, and juvenile records. MyCase can spare you a drive when a public summary or document is online. For the official file, though, the Clerk is still the source.
Odon Municipal Court Basics
No current Odon Municipal Court shows up on the official county court page, the state court directory, the Odyssey court list, or the MyCase selector. A town-government or municipal-code page is not a court docket. Ordinances, agendas, and town records are not a substitute for a Chronological Case Summary.
Use the county court route: select Daviess County in MyCase. Ask the Clerk about a public record that is not online. Do not assume the lack of a town-court result means no case exists.
Under Daviess local rules, all infractions and ordinance violations, plus most criminal cases, belong in Superior Court. Circuit Court gets small claims along with many family, probate, juvenile, guardianship, foreclosure, and protective-order matters. Cases can be reassigned by order, so the court code on the case always controls.
Odon Cause Numbers Decoded
A Daviess cause number today looks like 14C01-YYMM-TT-##### for Circuit or 14D01-YYMM-TT-##### for Superior. The pieces are easy to read. Fourteen marks the county. C01 or D01 marks the court. A case-type code shows the class. The date segment relates to filing, not to any hearing date. An old 14E01 number points to the abolished Daviess County Court, not a live counter.
- CCS
- The Chronological Case Summary, an ordered list of court events.
- Setting
- A scheduled appearance or hearing slot.
- Disposition
- The recorded outcome of a claim, charge, or case.
- File date
- The date the case began, not the date of every later event.
Court Dates and Settings in Odon
MyCase event entries give a fast public clue about an Odon court date. Still, the latest order or notice controls. Daviess schedules initial arraignments at 10 a.m. Monday and 8:30 a.m. Thursday, but those blocks do not prove that a particular person must appear. Holidays, weather, continuances, and later orders can all move a setting.
| Date | The newest event or order date. |
|---|---|
| Time | The assigned time, not merely a recurring docket call. |
| Court | 14C01 Circuit or 14D01 Superior. |
| Judge | The judicial officer listed for the event. |
| Setting Type | Arraignment, conference, hearing, trial, sentence, or review. |
A continued or reset event usually shifts a hearing; it does not dismiss the case. Open and closed status are not calendar terms either. Read the newest entry, check any public document, and call the right office when timing matters.
Odon Court Docket Context
The 2020 Census incorporated-places table lists Odon as a town with 1,397 residents, and that status bears on a court search. Incorporation does not mean the town operates a trial court. The Census place table supplies the population and place type.
Population figures do not answer the court question; the current judicial sources do. They steer an Odon searcher to Daviess Circuit or Superior Court rather than to any Odon town-court docket.
Traffic Tickets in Odon
Under the local rule, tickets written in Odon go to Daviess Superior Court. There is no municipal court for them. If the citation number is clear, search with it. Otherwise, run a name search narrowed to Daviess County and the likely filing window. Make sure the result shows 14D01 and matches the citation details. The county traffic office or the Clerk can confirm the current response, deadline, and amount.
| Need | Route | Verify |
|---|---|---|
| Find a ticket | MyCase Case search | Citation and 14D01 |
| Find the date | Latest CCS event | Date, time, setting |
| Pay or contest | County traffic service | Amount, deadline, response |
Online balances can lag, and paying is not proof a required hearing is canceled unless the court record says so. More county detail is on the Traffic Tickets page.
Odon Historical Record Search
The Indiana Historical Bureau's Odon marker records that the settlement was first called Clarksburg, took the name Odon in 1881, and incorporated in 1885.
The old name helps with genealogy and older-file research. A historical index may say Clarksburg while a modern MyCase search uses current party and court data. Try both forms in historical sources. Then give the Clerk names, dates, and likely record types, since the portal does not hold every nineteenth-century item.
Where Odon Cases Go
The local assignment rule, not the town limits, decides the trial court. Superior takes infractions, ordinance violations, and most criminal matters. Circuit handles small claims and many family, probate, juvenile, guardianship, foreclosure, and protective-order cases, while other civil matters can land in either court.
Docket flow: Odon event › Daviess Circuit or Superior Court › Court of Appeals of Indiana
That division of labor replaces any municipal-court flow. Most appeals move up to the Court of Appeals. Federal cases go through the Southern District of Indiana's Evansville Division, which runs its own separate search system.
Odon Small Claims Routing
Small claims filed in Odon land on the county docket, not a town court list. Daviess Circuit Court handles them under the local assignment rule. That makes 14C01 the court code you are most likely to see. If the case does not appear, search more broadly. Assignments can shift by order. Older docket data is also uneven.
Three different tasks: use MyCase to locate the cause number, the Clerk for the official file or copy, and the court's order for the actual deadline or hearing duty.
Daviess County posts a small-claims page plus a manual reference for filers. Fees are not fixed forever. Filing amounts and service costs shift over time. So an old docket entry cannot tell you what a small-claims filing costs today. A judgment entry has its own trap. It states what the court decided, not what a party still owes. Treat it as separate from any live payment balance. For the numbers that matter now, confirm with the Clerk before you rely on them.
Odon Searches That Miss
Even a careful Odon docket search can come back empty. Start by dropping any narrow category or status filter. Then run the last name by itself. Check the spelling, and widen the range of filing dates. Got a cause number? Search it both with and without punctuation or leading zeros. A trailing wildcard helps when only the first part of a name is clear. But pair it with Daviess County so the result list stays manageable.
A blank result can also just be the system's limits. MyCase covers Odyssey courts, and how much converted history each one holds differs. Confidential, sealed, juvenile, mental-health, protection-order, and expunged material may be hidden from public view. Some of it may be absent entirely. Some public cases show docket events with no downloadable paper attached. None of that means the matter never existed.
The fallback is a person, not a portal. Give the Clerk a name, the approximate filing period, the likely case type, and any old court code you have. Genealogy requests work best with names, dates, and facts that distinguish one person from another. Ask whether the Clerk holds the file. Ask whether older material sits on microfilm or another format. Ask whether a public copy can be prepared. Slower than a docket search, yes. But it respects both old-record gaps and current privacy rules.
Odon Court Record Access Rules
Indiana presumes public access but carves out protected material. Sealed records, some juvenile and mental-health matters, medical records, full account data, and protected victim or witness information may not appear in a Daviess County docket. A missing online paper proves nothing more. The case or document may still exist even when it never shows on your screen.
Key rules:
Access Rule 4 sets the general public-access presumption.
Access Rule 5 identifies protected cases, records, and data.
Indiana's Access to Public Records Act provides the wider framework, read with court rules.
Online access runs narrower than the full public record in some case types. A blank result is not a verdict. Ask the Clerk whether a public version of the court record exists instead of drawing a conclusion from what a search fails to return.
Odon Court Record History
The state's Daviess marker inventory ties Odon to the county's railroad, canal, settlement, and agricultural past.
That history can steer an older-name or genealogy search. It cannot prove a case fact, though. Because courthouse fires left gaps in older Daviess records, and MyCase coverage varies by age, digging into early court history may take a written request to the Clerk.