Meade County, KS tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Meade County, seat of Meade: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Format
- In person
- Registration
- Register before you show up.
- County office
- 620-873-8740
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How Meade County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- The Meade County Sheriff conducts the auction under an order of sale issued by the Meade County District Court. The Meade County Attorney's Office files and prosecutes the tax foreclosure for the Board of County Commissioners and is the office that publishes the sale notice, the parcel schedule and the bidder registration form. Reach the County Attorney's Office at 620-873-8755 and the Sheriff's Office at 620-873-8765.
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Register before you show up.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Register before you show up. The County Attorney's Office posts a Bidder Registration Form and asks bidders to bring the completed form to the sale to speed up the process. The form is sworn and notarized, so have it signed in front of a notary in advance. On it you certify that you owe no delinquent taxes in Meade County, that you hold no interest in the parcel you intend to bid on as owner, lienholder, relative or corporate officer, that you are not bidding on behalf of anyone barred from bidding, and that you understand a property bought at the auction may not be transferred for ten years to anyone who had a statutory right to redeem, on pain of owing the judgment amount plus interest. The form also captures the exact name for the deed, marital status, joint tenancy with rights of survivorship or tenancy in common (survivorship applies if you make no choice), and whether multiple winning bids go on one deed or separate deeds. The notice of sale states the sheriff sells "to the highest and best bidder for cash in hand," so arrange same-day funds. You also accept taxes and assessments the judgment did not cover, including the full year's taxes for the calendar year of the auction and in some cases the year before it.
Sale format and venue
Meade County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Meade 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 Meade County tax sale notice, parcel schedule and bidder registration form 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 The Meade County Sheriff conducts the auction under an order of sale issued by the Meade County District Court. The Meade County Attorney's Office files and prosecutes the tax foreclosure for the Board of County Commissioners and is the office that publishes the sale notice, the parcel schedule and the bidder registration form. Reach the County Attorney's Office at 620-873-8755 and the Sheriff's Office at 620-873-8765. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Meade County
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Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Meade County tax sale notice, parcel schedule and bidder registration form. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Register before you show up. The County Attorney's Office posts a Bidder Registration Form and asks bidders to bring the completed form to the sale to speed up the process. The form is sworn and notarized, so have it signed in front of a notary in advance. On it you certify that you owe no delinquent taxes in Meade County, that you hold no interest in the parcel you intend to bid on as owner, lienholder, relative or corporate officer, that you are not bidding on behalf of anyone barred from bidding, and that you understand a property bought at the auction may not be transferred for ten years to anyone who had a statutory right to redeem, on pain of owing the judgment amount plus interest. The form also captures the exact name for the deed, marital status, joint tenancy with rights of survivorship or tenancy in common (survivorship applies if you make no choice), and whether multiple winning bids go on one deed or separate deeds. The notice of sale states the sheriff sells "to the highest and best bidder for cash in hand," so arrange same-day funds. You also accept taxes and assessments the judgment did not cover, including the full year's taxes for the calendar year of the auction and in some cases the year before it.
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
- Meade County runs its tax sale as a judicial foreclosure. The County Attorney's Office files the case and publishes the notice, the district court enters judgment and confirms the sale, and the sheriff calls the bids in person at the courthouse. Kansas sells no tax lien certificates, so the sheriff's auction is the only way to buy here.
- Bidding is in person only, in the District Courtroom of the Meade County Courthouse at 200 N Fowler Street. There is no online auction platform for this sale.
- Payment is cash in hand to the sheriff, per the published notice of sale. Confirm accepted funds with the County Attorney's Office at 620-873-8755 before the auction.
- Bring a notarized Bidder Registration Form. You swear you owe no delinquent taxes in Meade County, hold no interest in the parcel, and are not bidding for someone who is barred, and you accept a ten-year bar on transferring the property to anyone who held a right to redeem.
- You take on taxes and assessments the judgment did not cover, including the full calendar year's taxes for the year of the auction and sometimes the prior year. Price that into your bid.
- Redemption runs through the day before the sale and ends there. Nobody buys the property back afterward. The separate twelve-month window under K.S.A. 79-2804b to open, vacate or set aside the judgment or sale is a title challenge, not a redemption right.
- Parcels are redeemed or pulled from the list up to the last minute, so re-read the notice on the Tax Sale page the morning of the auction.
- Sales are irregular in a county this size, because one only happens when a foreclosure case reaches judgment. Call the County Attorney's Office at 620-873-8755 to ask whether a case is pending, and check the Treasurer's Office at 620-873-8740 for the tax status of a parcel you are tracking.
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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