Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Texas County, Oklahoma, has about 21,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Texas County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies and two campus, state or other agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Texas County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Texas County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Texas County
The Texas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Texas County. It reported 74 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Guymon, 12,397 residents: 214 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hooker, 1,732 residents: 19 arrests reported for 2025.
- Goodwell, 927 residents: 7 arrests reported for 2025.
- Texhoma, 835 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2023.
- Tyrone, 735 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Texas County: District Attorneys Council at Drug Task Force 1 (other); Oklahoma Panhandle State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Texas County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Guymon: 214 for 2025, 210 for 2024, 170 for 2023, 190 for 2022, 174 for 2021 and 161 for 2020.
- Texas County Sheriff's Office: 74 for 2025, 104 for 2024, 85 for 2023, 111 for 2022 and 107 for 2021.
- Hooker: 19 for 2025, 16 for 2024, 12 for 2023, 12 for 2022, 10 for 2021 and 6 for 2020.
- Goodwell: 7 for 2025, 3 for 2024, 3 for 2023, 5 for 2022, 14 for 2021 and 7 for 2020.
- Tyrone: 0 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 1 for 2022, 2 for 2021 and 5 for 2020.
- Texhoma: 2 for 2023, 2 for 2022, 5 for 2021, 5 for 2020 and 2 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 314 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 314 in 2025 against 335 in 2024, down 6.3 percent.
Through July 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 185 arrests, against 192 in the same months of 2025.
Texhoma reported only part of 2025 (9 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Texas County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Texas County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 43 people, up from about 33 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 102 beds, and it ran at 32 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Texas County Sheriff's Office at jctxsheriff.org/texas (page title: Texas Inmate Search | Texas DOC Offender Lookup), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Oklahoma Department of Corrections lists its inmates at okoffender.doc.ok.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Texas County
An arrest in Texas County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Texas County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Texas County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at oklahoma.gov/occ/court-dockets/case-processing.html); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at texas.okcounties.org/offices/district-attorney, phone 580.338.3388).
Statewide, OSCN and ODCR is the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court.
Oklahoma is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15 a search, through the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Texas County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the agency must answer promptly; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge copying at no more than 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Texas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Guymon, Hooker, Goodwell, Texhoma or Tyrone: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by District Attorneys Council at Drug Task Force 1 or Oklahoma Panhandle State University: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 580.338.3388, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Texas County District Court, through the court records page at oklahoma.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at okc.gov/Government/Records/Records-Request (page title: Records Request | City of OKC).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Texas County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the seven cities in Texas County: Guymon, Hooker, Goodwell, Texhoma and Tyrone. Optima and Hardesty have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Texas County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Texas County each year?
Guymon reported 214 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 314 between them.
Where are people arrested in Texas County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Texas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Texas County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Texas County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Texas County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the answer is due promptly; the statute sets no number of days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at okc.gov/Government/Records/Records-Request.
Is this the official Texas County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.