Creek County, OK tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Creek County, OK tax sale, one of 3,131 counties in 51 states. Oklahoma sells the property itself, so no statutory investor interest rate applies. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from state rules plus what the county publishes on Oct 6, 2026.
How tax deed sales work in Creek County, seat of Sapulpa: 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
- Creek County publishes no online registration for the resale.
- County office
- 918-224-4501
On this page
How Creek County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Creek County Treasurer
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Creek County publishes no online registration for the resale.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Creek County publishes no online registration for the resale. Call the Treasurer's office at 918-224-4501 ahead of sale day to confirm the format, the registration step and the accepted forms of payment. Winning bids are payable in cash or certified funds, and the buyer also pays the county's listing and advertising costs for the parcel plus the deed recording fee on top of the bid amount.
Sale format and venue
Creek County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Creek 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.
Confirm the advertised parcel list
Use Resale and delinquent tax notices, Sapulpa Herald legals as a starting reference. Check which sale or list it covers; a Lands Available or office information page is separate from an auction parcel list. Ask the sale office for the advertised parcels for the auction you plan to attend.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 Creek County Treasurer before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use the Creek County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Creek County
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Confirm the parcel list before pricing
Open Resale and delinquent tax notices, Sapulpa Herald legals. Confirm whether this reference contains the auction parcels or covers a different list. Get the advertised parcel list from the county before you price a bid, and recheck it before the sale.Confirm registration and deposit
Creek County publishes no online registration for the resale. Call the Treasurer's office at 918-224-4501 ahead of sale day to confirm the format, the registration step and the accepted forms of payment. Winning bids are payable in cash or certified funds, and the buyer also pays the county's listing and advertising costs for the parcel plus the deed recording fee on top of the bid amount.
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
- The Creek County Treasurer's website carries office, payment and mortgage tax information but no resale calendar, parcel list or bidder packet. Ask the Treasurer's office at 918-224-4501 or creektsroffice@sbcglobal.net for the current resale list, and follow the legal notices in the Sapulpa Herald, the newspaper Creek County uses for its tax publications. The office is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Creek County shares one statewide treasurer portal with the other 76 Oklahoma counties, and several nearby counties, among them Okmulgee, Pawnee and Lincoln, post their own June resale and excess proceeds lists on it. Creek County does not. A list reached from the statewide county map may belong to a different county, so confirm Creek is named on the page before relying on anything found that way.
- Oklahoma sells no tax lien certificates to investors. The statutes behind the old October certificate sale were repealed in 2008 and the June resale now conveys the deed directly, so there is no October auction date in Creek County to plan around.
- A Creek County parcel becomes resale eligible once its taxes have been unpaid for three years or more from the date they first became due, not two.
- A resale deed vests an absolute and perfect title in fee simple and cancels the delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties and costs, but it passes only the surface and whatever mineral interest the surface owner held. In an oil and gas county like Creek, expect the minerals to be severed and to remain with their existing owner.
- Parcels drawing no qualifying bid are bid off in the name of the county. The Treasurer manages that county held inventory and may sell it afterward at a price the Board of County Commissioners approves, or at a periodic auction, so ask the office what is available between resales.
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.
What the deed conveys: The resale tax deed cancels all delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties and costs previously assessed against the parcel and every outstanding individual and county tax sale certificate, and vests in the buyer an absolute and perfect title in fee simple, subject to any claims the state had for taxes or other liens or encumbrances. Four limits matter to a buyer. The deed conveys only the surface and surface rights plus whatever mineral interests the surface owner held, so minerals already severed from the fee do not pass, which is a live issue on Oklahoma land. The deed is ineffective to extinguish the mortgage of any mortgagee of record who was not sent the required notice. The ad valorem tax lien ranks behind a mortgage or other lien held by the State of Oklahoma or the Commissioners of the Land Office at all times, so a state land loan survives. And usual restrictive covenants running with the land survive the deed and remain enforceable, as do the buyer's own rights to enforce them against others. County treasurers describe this as a buyer beware sale, say the deed is not a warranty deed, and recommend a quiet title action in district court before treating the title as marketable. See the due diligence guide.
Frequently asked questions
Does Creek County, Oklahoma sell tax liens or tax deeds?
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Where can I find the Creek County tax sale list?
Verified Oct 6, 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 office that runs the sale before you bid.
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