Kiowa County, KS tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Kiowa County, seat of Greensburg: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Format
- In person
- Registration
- The published notice sets no advance registration or bidder application.
- County office
- 620-723-2681
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How Kiowa County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Kiowa County Sheriff's Department
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- The published notice sets no advance registration or bidder application.
- Sale list
- Notice of Sheriff's Sale
When it runs
Kiowa County sells through judicial tax foreclosure, so an auction happens when a foreclosure case reaches judgment rather than on a fixed annual calendar. The most recent published notice set the sale for "the 11th day of December, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in the Courtroom on the second floor of the Kiowa County Courthouse, at 211 E. Florida Ave., in the City of Greensburg, Kiowa County, Kansas."
Registration and deposit
The published notice sets no advance registration or bidder application. Parcels are offered to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the courthouse, so plan to attend in person with funds ready and call the Sheriff's Department at 620-723-2182 ahead of sale day to confirm the accepted form of payment.
Sale format and venue
Kansas sells the deed, not a lien. The Board of County Commissioners of Kiowa County files the foreclosure petition in the Kiowa County District Court, the court issues an order of sale, and the sheriff auctions each tract at the courthouse. The December 2025 notice listed each tract with its parcel number, legal description, physical address, the year the parcel was first sold for delinquent taxes under K.S.A. 79-2302, and the taxes, charges, interest and penalties owed, which ranged from $148.22 to $20,274.17. Tracts are sold without appraisement and are taken subject to valid covenants remaining with the land, valid easements of record or in use, and taxes and interest that became a lien after the date of judgment. The county posts tract maps alongside the notice showing where the offered lots sit. The district court must confirm the sale before the sheriff's deed passes title, and K.S.A. 79-2804b allows 12 months to challenge the judgment or the sale, which is a title risk to price in rather than a right for the former owner to redeem.
Source: Notice of Sheriff's Sale, Kiowa County District Court Case KW-2024-CV-2· Verified Aug 24, 2026
Kiowa County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Kiowa 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 Notice of Sheriff's Sale for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
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 Kiowa County Sheriff's Department as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Kiowa County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Notice of Sheriff's Sale. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
The published notice sets no advance registration or bidder application. Parcels are offered to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the courthouse, so plan to attend in person with funds ready and call the Sheriff's Department at 620-723-2182 ahead of sale day to confirm the accepted form of payment.
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 auction is a live courthouse sale, held in the courtroom on the second floor of the Kiowa County Courthouse at 211 E. Florida Ave. in Greensburg. There is no online bidding platform for this county.
- Sales follow the county's foreclosure docket rather than a set month, so the operative document is the published Notice of Sheriff's Sale. Watch the county's online document center and the county's legal notices, and call the Sheriff's Department at 620-723-2182 to confirm the next date.
- Parcels go to the highest bidder for cash in hand, so arrive with cleared funds and confirm the accepted form of payment with the Sheriff's Department before sale day.
- Tracts sell without appraisement and pass subject to valid covenants, easements of record or in use, and taxes and interest that became a lien after judgment, so run title and inspect the ground before bidding.
- The December 2025 sale covered scattered town lots in Greensburg, Haviland and Wellsford, several with no street number, carrying back-tax balances from about $148 to more than $20,000. Expect vacant infill lots rather than improved houses.
- Title does not pass at the fall of the hammer. The district court confirms the sale first, then the sheriff's deed issues, and a 12 month window under K.S.A. 79-2804b remains open for a challenge to the judgment or the sale.
- Delinquent taxes are paid to the Treasurer at 620-723-2681, while the foreclosure case itself is brought for the county by the Kiowa County Attorney's office at 620-723-2721.
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 Kiowa 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 Kiowa County hold tax deed sales?
Kiowa County holds its tax deed sale once a year. 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 Kiowa County Sheriff's Department 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 Kiowa County tax sale list?
Kiowa County posts its tax sale list at kiowacountyks.gov. 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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