Craig County, OK tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Craig County, seat of Vinita: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Oklahoma tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- There is no advance application or deposit.
- County office
- 918-256-2286
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How Craig County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Craig County Treasurer
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- There is no advance application or deposit.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
There is no advance application or deposit. Bidders sign in at the sale, giving name, address and telephone number to receive a bidder number, and that sign in sheet becomes part of the permanent sale record. You or your representative must be present, because the treasurer runs an open, active auction to the highest bidder rather than a sealed bid sale. Payment is cash only, with no checks and no credit cards accepted, and bidders are not permitted to leave the courthouse to visit a bank. Budget a $10 deed fee plus the county clerk recording fee on top of the winning bid. Properties are called in the order they appear in the published list.
Sale format and venue
Craig County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Craig 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. If the parcels on this list are vacant land rather than houses, what buying land at a tax sale hands you is the place to start.
Get the advertised list
Use Delinquent Tax Info, Craig County Treasurer 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 Craig County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Craig County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Delinquent Tax Info, Craig County Treasurer. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
There is no advance application or deposit. Bidders sign in at the sale, giving name, address and telephone number to receive a bidder number, and that sign in sheet becomes part of the permanent sale record. You or your representative must be present, because the treasurer runs an open, active auction to the highest bidder rather than a sealed bid sale. Payment is cash only, with no checks and no credit cards accepted, and bidders are not permitted to leave the courthouse to visit a bank. Budget a $10 deed fee plus the county clerk recording fee on top of the winning bid. Properties are called in the order they appear in the published list.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Oklahoma due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth. Which liens survive is state law, so read what survives a tax deed in Oklahoma before you price the title work.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
Oklahoma has no certificate to buy over the counter. What a county can sell between resales is its own stock of parcels bid off at a past resale and held by the board of county commissioners. There are two routes. A buyer can submit a bid to the treasurer, who then advertises it once in each of the three consecutive weeks before a stated sale date; on that date the parcel goes to the highest competitive bidder for cash or certified funds, or back to the original bidder if nobody outbids them. Or the county can hold a periodic auction of its resale stock at a time the treasurer sets. Either way the sale needs the approval of the board of county commissioners, a bid below the taxes owed at the original resale also needs the county excise board, and the buyer covers advertising, sale costs and the recording fee on top of the bid. Counties usually publish this inventory as a county-owned property list, on no fixed schedule.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Oklahoma calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- Craig County Treasurer Lisa Washam runs the delinquent roll and the annual resale from the courthouse at 210 W. Delaware, Suite 104 in Vinita. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- There is one tax sale in this county, the June resale, and the winning bidder receives a resale tax deed. Oklahoma has not sold tax lien certificates to private investors since 2008, so there is no October certificate sale to bid at and no interest bearing instrument to buy.
- The resale is conducted in person at the courthouse and Craig County has not moved it online. State law now allows an Oklahoma treasurer to run the June resale as an online auction started within the full week of the second Monday of June, so confirm the format with the office ahead of each year's sale.
- Payment is cash only. Bring enough to cover the bid plus a $10 deed fee and the county clerk recording fee, since bidders may not leave the courthouse to reach a bank.
- A parcel reaches the resale once its taxes have gone unpaid for three years or more, not two.
- The prospective bidder packet, the list of property held for resale and the excess proceeds breakdown are all posted under Delinquent Tax Info on the treasurer's site.
- The Craig County Treasurer publishes through the statewide Oklahoma tax roll portal that most county treasurers in the state share, so confirm that any notice or list you open names Craig County before you rely on its sale date or its parcels.
Oklahoma rules
- Redemption
- Oklahoma gives the owner a long runway and then a hard stop. Redemption is open from the moment the taxes go delinquent right up to the start of the resale auction, which is three years or more. Once the auction begins, the right is gone: there is no post-sale redemption period, no owner buyback window and no premium for the buyer to collect, which is what separates Oklahoma from a redeemable-deed state such as Texas or Georgia. The single exception is for a person under a legal disability. A minor, or a person who is incapacitated or partially incapacitated, may redeem within one year after the disability ends, and 68 O.S. 3131(A) repeats the same one-year window after removal of the disability. The statute says in terms that incapacity here means mental incapacity only and that physical disability is not covered.
- Deed deposit
- Oklahoma sets no statewide deposit percentage and no statutory bidder registration. The statute requires payment in cash or certified funds, and permits online payment where the resale is run online. Counties run this as a cash sale with registration in the days before. Comanche County registered bidders from May 26 to June 5, 2026 and again from 8:30 a.m. on sale day, took cash or cashier's check on deposit in trust only through June 2, and told bidders they must have cash in hand at the moment of bidding. Oklahoma County ran the same shape with a wire cutoff of June 4 and a cashier's check cutoff of June 1. Confirm the county's registration window, accepted funds and cutoffs before travelling.
- Surplus proceeds
- When a parcel sells for more than the taxes, penalties, interest and costs due on it, the treasurer notifies the Oklahoma Tax Commission within 30 days. The Tax Commission has 60 days to report any outstanding state tax liabilities attached to the parcel, whether or not a tax warrant was filed, and the treasurer remits to it the lesser of those liabilities or the excess proceeds. Whatever is left is held in a separate fund for the record owner as of the date the resale began, and may be withdrawn any time within one year. Any assignment of the right to those excess proceeds made on or after the day the resale began is void, which closes the courthouse-steps surplus assignment trade. Money not claimed within the year is credited to the county resale property fund.
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 31, 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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