Barton County, KS tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Barton County, seat of Great Bend: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- The Treasurer's office states: "The Annual Tax Sale is held the third Tuesday in October.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- Bidding is live at the sale room and there is no online bidding portal.
- County office
- (620) 793-1831
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How Barton County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Barton County Treasurer, Real Estate Division, whose published duties include conducting the annual and adjourned tax sales, preparing the newspaper notice of tax sale, mailing notice of the annual tax sale and processing tax sale redemptions. Parcels reach the sale through a district court tax foreclosure, and the county returns to the Barton County District Court afterward on a motion to confirm the sale.
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- The Treasurer's office states: "The Annual Tax Sale is held the third Tuesday in October.
- Registration
- Bidding is live at the sale room and there is no online bidding portal.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Bidding is live at the sale room and there is no online bidding portal. Register on site before the auction opens, and expect a tax record check first. The county's published terms state that "Persons with delinquent real estate taxes are not eligible to bid," that "Taxes are checked before being registered to bid," and that "Persons with an interest in the property are not allowed to bid." Published forms of payment are cash, check or money order. At the close of the sale a Certificate of Sale is issued to the purchaser and a fee is collected then for filing the deed with the Register of Deeds, with the deed sent to the purchaser within about three weeks. Announcements made on the day of the sale take precedence over anything published earlier.
Sale format and venue
Barton County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Barton County tax sale 2026 searches, use the county-run sources below rather than a copied parcel list, and confirm the parcel, registration cutoff, deposit, and payment deadline against the county before you bid.
Get the advertised list
Use 2022 tax sale tract list, the most recent published list for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
The Treasurer's office states: "The Annual Tax Sale is held the third Tuesday in October. The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the county office before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Barton County Treasurer, Real Estate Division, whose published duties include conducting the annual and adjourned tax sales, preparing the newspaper notice of tax sale, mailing notice of the annual tax sale and processing tax sale redemptions. Parcels reach the sale through a district court tax foreclosure, and the county returns to the Barton County District Court afterward on a motion to confirm the sale. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Barton County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from 2022 tax sale tract list, the most recent published list. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Bidding is live at the sale room and there is no online bidding portal. Register on site before the auction opens, and expect a tax record check first. The county's published terms state that "Persons with delinquent real estate taxes are not eligible to bid," that "Taxes are checked before being registered to bid," and that "Persons with an interest in the property are not allowed to bid." Published forms of payment are cash, check or money order. At the close of the sale a Certificate of Sale is issued to the purchaser and a fee is collected then for filing the deed with the Register of Deeds, with the deed sent to the purchaser within about three weeks. Announcements made on the day of the sale take precedence over anything published earlier.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Kansas due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth.Set a walk-away number
Work out what the parcel is actually worth with the rural land value estimator, then turn it into a ceiling with the tax deed max-bid calculator.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
unsold properties
Kansas counties sell no tax lien certificates and keep no over-the-counter certificate list. What a county can hold is real estate it bought in at its own sheriff's sale. The commissioners keep a record of every such parcel that is open to public inspection, and the board sells them at private or public sale for cash, at a price of at least the original judgment lien plus interest, the costs in the order of sale, and every subsequent tax and special assessment. Six months after the sale to the county is confirmed the board may reduce the price and take sealed bids after advertising for three consecutive weeks, or sell at public auction to the highest cash bidder. Ask the county clerk or county counselor for the current county-owned list, and check whether the county has a land bank.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- The Treasurer's office is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:45 pm, at 1400 Main St., Suite 107 in Great Bend. James E. Jordan is the Treasurer and the office line for tax sale questions is 620-793-1831.
- Bidder eligibility is screened before you can register. Owing delinquent real estate taxes anywhere in Barton County disqualifies you from bidding, and anyone holding an interest in a listed parcel cannot bid on that parcel.
- A ten-year clawback follows the deed. A successful bidder may not convey ownership back to anyone with an interest in the property for ten years, and if that happens all back taxes and penalties become due and payable in full.
- The tract list shrinks as owners redeem. The 2019 sale published a redemption cutoff of noon on the Monday before the Tuesday auction and listed more than forty tracts that had already come off, so bid from the final list the county posts just before the sale.
- The auction is not the last step. The county files a motion to confirm the tax sale with the Barton County District Court, which is heard on the court's docket after the sale, so allow for that timing when planning what you will do with the parcel.
- Between sale years the county website carries no live tax sale notice. Watch the county home page for the tax sale tab in late summer and early fall, watch the newspaper advertisement that runs three times, and call the Treasurer at 620-793-1831 to confirm the date, the venue and whether a sale is scheduled.
Kansas rules
- Redemption
- Kansas redemption has two stages, and both close before the auction. Stage one is K.S.A. 79-2401a: once the treasurer bids the parcel off to the county in September, the county holds it for three years for a homestead under section 9 of article 15 of the Kansas Constitution and for all real estate not described in K.S.A. 79-2401a(a), two years where the parcel was bid off for both delinquent taxes and special assessments, and one year for an abandoned building or structure and the land accommodating it, meaning one that has been unoccupied for at least a year with a failure to perform reasonable maintenance. During that window the owner pays the county treasurer directly. On the three-year track a PARTIAL redemption is allowed: paying the taxes for one or more years, starting with the earliest year the parcel was carried on the tax-sale book, plus interest at the K.S.A. 79-2004 rate, pushes back the date a foreclosure sale may be commenced by the number of years paid. The Johnson County paragraph applies the same partial payment to the most recent year instead of the earliest, and it does not carry the extension sentence. Stage two is K.S.A. 79-2803: after the petition is filed the treasurer may no longer take ordinary payments, but the owner or holder of record title, their heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, assigns, or any mortgagee or mortgagee's assigns may still redeem at any time BEFORE THE DAY OF SALE by filing an application to redeem with the clerk of the district court and paying the clerk a share of the costs, being whatever the court orders or, absent an order, 5 percent of the lien amount stated in the petition for that parcel plus any charges chargeable separately against it. The treasurer then computes the full taxes, charges, interest, and penalties, issues a redemption certificate in triplicate, and the sheriff strikes the parcel from the order of sale. Once the sale happens the right is gone. Kansas gives no post-sale redemption period and no right to buy the property back after the sheriff's deed. What exists after the sale is a twelve-month window under K.S.A. 79-2804b to open, vacate, modify, or set aside the judgment, the order of sale, or the sale. That is a title challenge, not redemption: it is available to parties attacking the proceedings, it requires grounds, and it does not let a former owner simply pay the taxes and take the parcel back.
- Deed deposit
- Kansas fixes no statewide deposit percentage and no statutory bidder registration. K.S.A. 79-2804 is silent on deposits, so the terms are whatever the sheriff publishes for that sale. The statute does require one payment at the auction itself: the register of deeds filing fee for the sheriff's deed is collected from the successful bidder at the time of sale and deposited with the register of deeds at recording. Confirm the county's accepted funds, any registration step, and the payment deadline before bidding, and expect certified funds.
- Surplus proceeds
- If a parcel sells for more than the judgment lien for taxes, interest, penalty, and charges plus its share of the costs, charges, and expenses of the proceedings and sale, the court orders the excess paid, upon due proof, to the owner or the party entitled to it. The court apportions costs across the parcels sold as soon as practicable after the sale, deducts the total costs from the gross proceeds, and equitably apportions the balance to each parcel that sold for more than its share. The clerk pays that balance to the county treasurer, who prorates it among the state, city, township, school district, and other taxing units in proportion to their interest in the lien, and cancels the taxes charged against the parcel. Tax liens on every parcel sold or redeemed in the action are satisfied and discharged of record.
A tax deed does not convey marketable title. Most buyers file a quiet title action before they can resell or insure the property. See the due diligence guide.
Frequently asked questions
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Verified Aug 24, 2026 against official county and state sources.
Tax Sale Atlas publishes educational information about public tax sale processes. This is not legal, financial, or investment advice. Rules, dates, and fees change; confirm with the county office before you bid.
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