Crawford County, OH tax sales
Crawford County, Ohio sells both tax lien certificates and tax deeds. The County Treasurer runs the certificate sale (18% maximum, bid down), and the County Sheriff holds the tax deed sale on parcels whose certificates go unredeemed, from the county seat in Bucyrus, under R.C. Chapter 5721.
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- Announcements
- Suite 102, Bucyrus, phone 419-562-7861) certifies delinquency and publishes the delinquent land list.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- No advance registration or bidder deposit is published for the tax sale.
- County office
- (419) 562-7906
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How Crawford County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- Crawford County Treasurer
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- No certificate sale registration process is published by the Crawford County Treasurer.
When it runs
No tax certificate sale date, list, or bidder schedule is published by the Crawford County Treasurer. The office's tax information page states only that "In addition to foreclosure action, real estate properties with delinquent taxes may be subject to a TAX LIEN SALE," with no auction date attached. Call the Treasurer at 419-562-7861 to confirm whether any certificate sale is planned before assuming one exists.
Registration and deposit
Sale format and venue
Ohio tax certificate sales under Ohio Rev. Code 5721.32 and 5721.33 are optional for a county, and Crawford County publishes no evidence of running one. What the Treasurer does publish is the annual delinquent land list, headed "DELINQUENT TAX NOTICE: The lands, lots and parts of lots returned delinquent by the Treasurer of Crawford County with the taxes, assessments and penalties, charges thereon agreeable to law, are contained and described in the following list," organized by township and taxing district with parcel numbers and owner names. That list is a certification of delinquency, not an offering of certificates for sale. The enforcement route the county actually documents is judicial foreclosure leading to a Sheriff's tax sale, which is covered in the deed block. No online certificate platform is confirmed for this county; verify with the office before treating a Crawford County certificate purchase as available. Treasurer's office: Steve Reinhard, 112 E. Mansfield St. Suite 102, Bucyrus, OH 44820-2349, phone 419-562-7861, fax 419-562-3171.
Source: Crawford County Treasurer, Tax Information· Verified Aug 7, 2026
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Crawford County Sheriff's Office, Civil Office
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- No advance registration or bidder deposit is published for the tax sale.
When it runs
The Sheriff's page states that "All sales are held each Friday at 11:00 a.m. as needed" and that tax liens are sold "at live auction in the lobby of the Sheriff's Office 3613 Stetzer Rd. Bucyrus, Ohio every Friday at 11:00 AM as order of sales are received from the Common Pleas Court." There is no fixed annual sale month; dates appear as the Common Pleas Court issues orders of sale. Each property is offered twice: "Any property not selling at the first scheduled sale will be offered again two weeks later." The 2026 schedule posted on the page lists first offerings on 08/07/2026 and 08/14/2026 with second offerings on 08/21/2026 and 08/28/2026.
Registration and deposit
No advance registration or bidder deposit is published for the tax sale. Bidders attend in person at the Sheriff's Office lobby. Terms of sale: "10% of the bid, cash or certified check, is due at the time of sale with balance of the bid is due when the sale is confirmed by the Crawford County Common Pleas Court." The office states, "We do not take personal checks."
Sale format and venue
This is the deed-side sale: a judicial foreclosure sale for non-payment of taxes, conducted by the Sheriff under order of the Crawford County Court of Common Pleas. The Sheriff's Civil Office lists "SHERIFF'S SALE FOR DELINQUENT TAXES" among its duties, separate from ordinary sheriff's sales of real estate. IMPORTANT DISTINCTION: since September 2022 the Sheriff conducts general mortgage foreclosure sales online through Realauction at https://crawford.sheriffsaleauction.ohio.gov, but the Sheriff's page carves tax sales out of that system, saying tax liens "will remain to be sold at live auction in the lobby." Do not expect to bid on a Crawford County tax sale online. Sale location: Crawford County Sheriff's Office, 3613 Stetzer Road, Bucyrus, OH 44820, phone 419-562-7906. The page lists each offering by sale date, Common Pleas case number, parcel number, owner, address, and the scheduled second-offering date. The county warns that properties are sold as they stand: "We do not have access to these properties for viewing. You are buying the property as it is at time of sale." Proceeds pay the delinquent taxes, penalties, assessments, and costs, and the office notes the process "is a court action and may take several weeks and sometimes several months to complete." In-person auction in the Crawford County Sheriff's Office lobby, no online bidding for tax sales
Source: Crawford County Sheriff's Office, 2026 Tax Sales· Verified Aug 7, 2026
Crawford County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Crawford 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 Crawford County Sheriff tax sale list 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 Crawford County Sheriff's Office, Civil Office as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Crawford County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Crawford County Sheriff tax sale list. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
No advance registration or bidder deposit is published for the tax sale. Bidders attend in person at the Sheriff's Office lobby. Terms of sale: "10% of the bid, cash or certified check, is due at the time of sale with balance of the bid is due when the sale is confirmed by the Crawford County Common Pleas Court." The office states, "We do not take personal checks."
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Ohio 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 liens and deeds
Ohio has no over-the-counter tax certificate channel. The equivalent inventory is the county auditor's forfeited land list, made up of parcels that drew no qualifying bid at two foreclosure sales. The auditor offers that list at public auction at least annually, and a tract that still receives no bid meeting the statutory minimum may then be sold for the best price obtainable.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work.
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County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
County notes
- Crawford County's active tax sale is the Sheriff's in-person tax foreclosure auction in Bucyrus. No county-run tax certificate sale is documented, so investors looking for Ohio certificate purchases should confirm with the Treasurer before planning a Crawford County trip.
- Two offices matter here and they are not interchangeable. The Treasurer (112 E. Mansfield St. Suite 102, Bucyrus, phone 419-562-7861) certifies delinquency and publishes the delinquent land list. The Sheriff's Civil Office (3613 Stetzer Road, Bucyrus, phone 419-562-7906) conducts the auction once the Common Pleas Court issues an order of sale.
- The Sheriff runs two different sale channels. Mortgage foreclosure sales are online through Realauction at crawford.sheriffsaleauction.ohio.gov with wire or ACH deposits of $2,000, $5,000, or $10,000 set by law. Tax sales stay live in the office lobby with 10 percent down in cash or certified check. Registering with Realauction does not register you for a tax sale.
- Because each parcel is offered twice, two weeks apart, a property that draws no bid at its first Friday returns on a later Friday at the same 11:00 a.m. start.
- Winning bids are not final at the fall of the hammer. The balance is due only after the Court of Common Pleas confirms the sale, and the county cautions that confirmation can take weeks or months.
- The Crawford County Auditor (112 E. Mansfield St. Suite 105, Bucyrus, phone 419-562-7941) hosts the real estate, GIS, and sales search tools used for pre-bid research, but publishes no forfeited land sale of its own.
- There is a Crawford County Land Reutilization Corporation (land bank) linked from the Treasurer's site, which is a separate acquisition channel from the Sheriff's auction.
Ohio rules
- Redemption
- Ohio has no post-sale redemption window. On the certificate track the owner or any other person entitled to redeem may pay the county treasurer at any time before the certificate holder pays to start foreclosure, and after that up until the entry of confirmation of sale, the expiration of the 28-day alternative redemption period, or the decree that conveys title to the certificate holder. On the direct foreclosure track, delinquent land may be redeemed before proceedings begin, and afterwards up to the entry of confirmation of sale or the end of the alternative redemption period. The alternative redemption period is 28 days after an adjudication of foreclosure is journalized, and when it expires the right and equity of redemption terminate without any further order. Once title vests, a decree conveying the parcel to a certificate holder is a permanent bar to redemption.
- Deed deposit
- For residential property the deposit is fixed by statute: $2,000 if the appraised value is $10,000 or less, $5,000 if it is above $10,000 and up to $200,000, and $10,000 if it is above $200,000. A judgment creditor buying at its own sale posts no deposit. For commercial property the deposit follows whatever requirements the sale sets. Deposit timing is set by the court or the officer conducting the sale and printed in the sale advertisement, and an online sale may take the deposit by card or other financial transaction device.
- Surplus proceeds
- Sale proceeds pay costs first, then the certificate holder or the taxing districts, and any residue goes to the clerk of the court within 45 days after confirmation. The clerk notifies the former owner. Residue left unclaimed 90 days after that final notice is paid into the county treasury and held for the owner, who may demand it within three years. After three years it is forfeited to the county's delinquent tax and assessment collection fund, or to the county land reutilization corporation fund where one exists.
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 Crawford County, Ohio sell tax liens or tax deeds?
Crawford County follows Ohio's hybrid system. The County Treasurer sells tax lien certificates, and the County Sheriff handles the tax deed sale on parcels whose certificates go unredeemed.
When is the Crawford County tax certificate sale?
No tax certificate sale date, list, or bidder schedule is published by the Crawford County Treasurer. The office's tax information page states only that "In addition to foreclosure action, real estate properties with delinquent taxes may be subject to a TAX LIEN SALE," with no auction date attached. Call the Treasurer at 419-562-7861 to confirm whether any certificate sale is planned before assuming one exists. Always confirm the exact date with the County Treasurer before the sale.
How often does Crawford County hold tax deed sales?
Crawford 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. Ohio's redemption rule: 1 year after the certificate sale before the holder can request foreclosure; redemption then stays open until confirmation of sale. Call the Crawford County Sheriff's Office, Civil Office 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 Crawford County tax sale list?
Crawford County posts its tax sale list at crawfordcountysheriffohio.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 7, 2026 against official county and state sources.
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