Chautauqua County, KS tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Chautauqua County, seat of Sedan: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- The county has not yet announced a 2026 sale date.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- No online bidding portal is published for this sale, so plan to bid in person.
- County office
- (620) 725-5810
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How Chautauqua County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Chautauqua County Treasurer, with the Chautauqua County Sheriff conducting the auction under the district court's order of sale
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- The county has not yet announced a 2026 sale date.
- Registration
- No online bidding portal is published for this sale, so plan to bid in person.
- Sale list
- 2026 tax sale parcel list
When it runs
The county has not yet announced a 2026 sale date. The Treasurer states the sale date "is determined four to six weeks prior to the sale date and is announced through publication in the Official County newspaper, online, or may be obtained by calling the Treasurer's Office at (620) 725-5810, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m."
Registration and deposit
Sale format and venue
The Treasurer publishes the sale roster on its 2026 Tax Sale page as a plain table of parcel number, tax ID, owner name, property address, city and zip. Thirty-three parcels are listed, and the page carries no opening bids, legal descriptions or acreage, so every parcel needs its own research before you bid. A parcel can leave the list right up to the last business day: all current and delinquent taxes on it plus $535 in tax sale fees must be paid by the close of business the day before the sale. Because Kansas sells through a judicial foreclosure, the district court enters the judgment and must confirm the sheriff's sale before the deed passes title, so budget for the gap between winning a bid and holding recorded ownership.
Source: 2026 Tax Sale parcel list and redemption terms, Chautauqua County Treasurer· Verified Aug 24, 2026
Chautauqua County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Chautauqua 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 2026 tax sale parcel list for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
The county has not yet announced a 2026 sale date. 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 Chautauqua County Treasurer, with the Chautauqua County Sheriff conducting the auction under the district court's order of sale as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Chautauqua County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from 2026 tax sale parcel list. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
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 sale list gives parcel number, tax ID, owner name, property address, city and zip and nothing more, so run each tax ID through the Appraiser's parcel search and the Register of Deeds before you bid.
- The 33 listed parcels are spread across the county rather than concentrated in the county seat: Cedar Vale carries 13, Sedan 9, Elgin 4, and the rest fall in Peru, Chautauqua, Niotaze and Wauneta.
- Redemption happens before the auction, not after it. Paying every current and delinquent tax on a parcel plus $535 in tax sale fees by the close of business the day before the sale pulls that parcel out, so confirm the live roster with the Treasurer at (620) 725-5810 on sale morning.
- Chautauqua County sits in the 14th Judicial District. The district court that enters the foreclosure judgment and confirms the sale is on the third floor of the courthouse at 215 N Chautauqua St in Sedan, phone (620) 725-5870.
- Kansas tax foreclosure petitions are filed by the county counselor or the county attorney. Chautauqua County staffs both: County Counselor Zoe Newton at 620-306-0533 and County Attorney Christian Fazel at (620) 725-5876, whose office is at 218 N Montgomery St in Sedan.
- The Sheriff's Office, which carries out the court's order of sale, is at 218 N Montgomery St, Sedan, KS 67361, phone (620) 725-3108. Richard A. Newby holds the office.
- The Appraiser's Office at (620) 725-5820 points its parcel search at ORKA, the State of Kansas property information site, where you select Chautauqua County to reach its parcel records.
- County tax due dates set the delinquency clock: the first half is due December 20 and the second half May 10, and interest on real property starts accruing December 21.
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
Does Chautauqua County, Kansas sell tax liens or tax deeds?
Tax deeds. Kansas sells no tax lien certificates to investors; the county sells the property itself at a public tax sale.
How often does Chautauqua County hold tax deed sales?
Chautauqua County holds its tax deed sale once a year. The county has not yet announced a 2026 sale date. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.
I own a property in this sale. Can I stop it?
Often yes, by paying the overdue taxes, interest, and costs before the deadline. Kansas's redemption rule: Runs BEFORE the sale and ends on the day of the sheriff's sale. One, two, or three years from the county's September bid-off depending on the parcel, then a further right to redeem at the courthouse until the day of sale. Kansas has no redemption period after the sale. Call the Chautauqua County Treasurer, with the Chautauqua County Sheriff conducting the auction under the district court's order of sale as early as possible for your exact payoff and options; deadlines are strict. Free help: lawhelp.org lists legal aid programs, and consumerfinance.gov lists HUD-approved housing counselors.
Where can I find the Chautauqua County tax sale list?
Chautauqua County posts its tax sale list at chautauquacountyks.com. Lists go up ahead of each sale and keep changing until the sale date, so confirm every parcel against the county's legal advertisement before you bid.
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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