Holdrege cases route through county offices. The official Phelps County Court page, the Phelps District Court page, and the Phelps County homepage are the local channels for court and courthouse business.
How to Search the Holdrege Court Docket
Holdrege publishes no separate municipal-court docket or citation portal. An ordinance matter, traffic case, or lower-level criminal case all run through Nebraska's JUSTICE Trial Court Case Search. Enter a party name or court case number. Then narrow the results to Phelps County and County Court if the filter is needed. That filter matters. A felony can start in County Court and later show a District Court record after bind-over. Keep the citation, notice, or case number in hand before you begin the search.
- Identify whether the Holdrege matter is a citation, a County Court case, or a District Court case after bind-over.
- Search JUSTICE by the party name or case number. A one-time name search costs $17, returns up to 30 records, and remains available for three calendar days.
- If necessary, choose Phelps County, select County Court or District Court, and add year, case type, judge, or attorney only to narrow a broad result.
- Open the case detail and read the Case Summary and Register of Actions in date order. Compare the caption, parties, court, and year before treating a result as the Holdrege case sought.
- For a date or a missing record, use the County Court calendar or call the clerk with the case number and full party name.
Note: JUSTICE only returns people who are parties to the case. A witness named in a filing will not come up as a match.
Holdrege Tickets in Phelps JUSTICE
JUSTICE is the public case-information layer for Holdrege cases that reach Phelps County Court. Its Case Summary may show parties, offense details in a criminal matter, financial information, the Register of Actions, and public document images. The register itself is just an event index. A line may reflect a filing, hearing, order, judgment, payment, or appeal. But that line is not automatically the underlying document.
A Holdrege ticket involves two tools with different jobs. The state's citation payment form takes the citation number, citation date, name, county, address, and amount. JUSTICE gives you the court case view instead. The official citation-payment form has no Holdrege selector. So pick Phelps as the county where the citation was issued.
| Holdrege search need | Best official channel | Useful identifier |
|---|---|---|
| Court case history | JUSTICE | Party name or court case number |
| Waiverable citation payment | State citation portal | Citation number, date, name, amount |
| Copy or certified record | Phelps County Court clerk | Case number and document name |
The Holdrege Municipal Court
The published record points one way. City and judiciary sources list no separate Holdrege Municipal Court, no city judge, no court calendar, and no municipal search form. That is not a promise about the future. It means the working route for local court matters is Phelps County Court, which handles municipal-ordinance violations along with traffic cases, misdemeanors, small claims, probate, and preliminary felony hearings.
Holdrege is the county seat, so the city and the court share a community but not a records office. City agendas and council minutes are municipal-government records. They stand in for nothing on the court side: no hearing, no Register of Actions, no clerk certification. Start with the county court's public channels for any Holdrege case, and ask the city office only about city-government business or local citation routing. For community context, Phelps County's places reference covers Holdrege and the other incorporated places.
That civic picture keeps things straight. A Holdrege street address is not the same thing as the Phelps County Court record system that keeps the docket.
Holdrege City Hall and Court Records
Holdrege City Hall sits at 502 East Avenue. The Phelps County Courthouse is at 715 5th Avenue. They are separate channels with separate jobs. The city office posts municipal contacts and meeting material. The County Court clerk magistrate, meanwhile, takes requests for the traffic, municipal-ordinance, misdemeanor, and related court records that arise in Holdrege. The clerk's mailing address is P.O. Box 255, Holdrege, NE 68949, and the phone number is 308-995-6561.
The County Court counter's published hours are 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The county courthouse lists general building hours of 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Call ahead before an in-person records trip. The official pages give no terminal room number, processing-time promise, or separate records-desk schedule. Holdrege's official city page identifies the City Hall channel and its public municipal information.
The city-office address is easy to mix up with the courthouse. A municipal building is not the County Court counter for a Holdrege docket.
Holdrege Court Dates and Settings
For a Holdrege case in County Court, start with the appearance date printed on the citation, summons, or most recent notice. Then open the Nebraska multi-court calendar, choose County Court and Phelps, and search by date or at least two letters of a last name. Treat the calendar as a convenience view. If a date was reset, continued, or never appears online, trust the newest setting in the JUSTICE register and confirm directly with the clerk.
The public calendar excludes Phelps District Court. A Holdrege felony that has moved to District Court, or any other District Court matter, should be checked in JUSTICE and confirmed with the Clerk of the District Court at 308-995-2281. A blank calendar result does not prove there is no hearing.
| Date | The scheduled hearing date shown on the notice, calendar, or latest docket entry. |
|---|---|
| Time | The posted time for the setting; confirm a changed time with the responsible clerk. |
| Location | The court location returned by the public calendar when it is available. |
| Case number | The identifier that ties a Holdrege citation or case to the court record. |
| Setting type | An appearance, arraignment, motion hearing, trial, sentencing, or later review date. |
Holdrege Agenda Calendar and Court Dates
The city website for Holdrege posts agendas, council meetings, and a general calendar. Those are city-government events, nothing more. A council meeting date is never a court date for a Holdrege citation or case, so do not treat it as one. The actual court calendar runs through the County Court filter for Phelps County, and the case register gives you the event history for a single case.
Why do court records land here at all? Holdrege has long served as the county seat. The official city history recounts the 1880s transfer of the county seat and the odd fight over possession of the county records. That tale is background. It does not prove any old court book survives or sits online today. Holdrege’s city history covers the county-seat story and the community’s beginnings.
That old fight over records points to a simple rule for today. Ask the present clerk, not a city meeting calendar, for any court docket request.
Holdrege Traffic Tickets
A Holdrege traffic ticket runs through Phelps County Court. Check the citation first. It carries the appearance date, court information, citation number, offense details, and the amount. It also shows whether payment without appearance is allowed. Use the statewide payment portal only when the citation says waiver is permitted. That portal is not a full docket. Need a plea, a disposition, a court date, or a copy? Search JUSTICE or call the County Court clerk.
No waiver means you must appear at the date and time shown. Never pay before a required appearance. Does one of several offenses require an appearance? State guidance says the person must appear on all of them. Card and eCheck payments go through the state system, with a listed $1.25 to $2.95 convenience charge. The wider path is on the Phelps County traffic court records page. It walks through the county-wide court-record route.
Appearance warning: A warrant is not automatically recalled by an online payment; the state portal directs a person with an issued warrant to contact the court during office hours.
Holdrege Court Docket Traffic Context
How big is Holdrege? The 2020 Census counted 5,515 residents. Nebraska’s 2023 certified population list also shows 5,515. No official filing count exists for Holdrege alone, because the state routes these matters to county court. The one available FY2025 number is county-wide: Phelps County Court received 402 traffic filings. Assigning that total to Holdrege alone would be wrong.
The Census incorporated-place table gives the official population comparison for the five Phelps County communities.
The table shows civic scale. The docket itself stays a Phelps County Court record.
Where Holdrege Cases End Up
Where does a Holdrege case go? Most traffic, municipal-ordinance, misdemeanor, probate, small-claims, and limited civil matters start in Phelps County Court. A felony also begins there, at the preliminary hearing stage. Once probable cause is found, the charge is bound over. A separate case opens in Phelps District Court. That court also holds general-jurisdiction civil, domestic-relations, and protection-order records. JUSTICE indexes both venues, but their clerks and calendar access differ.
Docket flow: Holdrege citation or ordinance matter → Phelps County Court → Phelps District Court after felony bind-over when applicable.
The County Court register may show a transfer or bind-over entry. That entry does not carry the case number forward. District Court gets its own number. For the full court map and clerk split, see the Phelps County court docket overview.
Holdrege Felony Docket Bind-Over
A bind-over is a transfer step. It happens after a County Court preliminary hearing in a felony case. It is not a final finding of guilt. In any Holdrege-related felony, start with the County Court case and its register entries. If the matter was bound over, pull the District Court case separately through JUSTICE. The District Court clerk holds the trial-court record.
- Preliminary hearing
- A County Court proceeding that tests probable cause before a felony can move forward.
- Bind-over
- The transfer of a felony prosecution from County Court to District Court for trial.
- Register of Actions
- The chronological official index of filings, hearings, orders, and other recorded court events.
One catch worth knowing. Phelps District Court is searchable in JUSTICE even though the statewide calendar leaves that court off its live listings.
Public Access to Holdrege Court Records
Holdrege court information is public through Phelps County Court and District Court channels. No city records desk handles it. Nebraska court rules permit remote access through the court-authorized provider. A courthouse public terminal is free to use. Legal limits still apply. A clerk search works best with a full party name, plus a case number, year, case type, or citation if you have one. For documents, copies, or certification, contact the responsible clerk rather than trusting a screen print.
Not everything is open, however. Sealed adult criminal records, confidential juvenile material, adoption files, and protected personal or financial information may be withheld, along with anything a rule or court order restricts. Do normal clerk channels stall? A written request under Nebraska’s Public Records Act is the next formal step.
Key Rules:
Neb. Ct. R. §§ 1-804 and 1-805 allow authorized electronic and courthouse-terminal access to public case information, registers, calendars, and available images.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 84-712 provides inspection and copying rights for public records unless another law makes material confidential.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 29-3523 limits ordinary dissemination of court-ordered sealed adult criminal records.
Holdrege Court Records and CC 3:29
Need a document from Holdrege County Court? CC 3:29 is the statewide form for requesting a file or certified copy. It asks for the court and county, case number, case name, the document you want with its date, delivery preference, and contact details. Choose electronic or mail delivery, certified or not. Then prepay the quoted amount. The fee schedule: electronic non-certified copies cost nothing, mailed non-certified copies run $0.25 per page, electronic certification adds $1 per request, and a mailed certified copy carries $1 per seal plus page charges.
Phelps County Court clerk magistrate
P.O. Box 255
Holdrege, NE 68949
308-995-6561
County Court traffic, municipal-ordinance, misdemeanor, and other County Court records.
Identify the record first. Then use the CC 3:29 copy-request form. The official Phelps pages do not post processing times, counter payment methods, or a public-terminal room number, so confirm those with the clerk.