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Custer County, OK tax sales

How tax deed sales work in Custer County, seat of Arapaho: 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
The Treasurer's office publishes no separate bidder registration packet.
County office
580-323-2292
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How Custer County sells delinquent taxes

No tax lien certificate sale

No Oklahoma county sells a tax lien certificate, or any other interest-bearing instrument, to a private investor. The county treasurer collects delinquent taxes and, once the three-year clock in 68 O.S. 3105 has run, sells the parcel itself at the June resale.

Tax deed sale

In-person public auction at the county treasurer's office. A county expecting a crowd may move it to a larger venue: Oklahoma County held its 2026 resale at the Oklahoma County Election Board. Since November 1, 2025 a treasurer may instead contract a firm to run the resale as an online auction, with the auctioneer's cost added to each parcel, but no statewide vendor has emerged and the counties checked for this record were still selling in person in June 2026.
Run by
Custer County Treasurer
Frequency
annual
Registration
The Treasurer's office publishes no separate bidder registration packet.
Sale list
Resale property list
When it runs
The Treasurer's office states that the "Delinquent Tax Sale is the second Monday of June." The 2026 resale list carried the header "Date of Sale 6/08/2026," the second Monday of that June. Oklahoma law fixes the resale on the second Monday of June in every county, and lets a treasurer who moves the auction online start it any time during the full week of that Monday.
Registration and deposit

The Treasurer's office publishes no separate bidder registration packet. Resale property is sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds, so plan to bring certified funds and confirm identification and payment terms with the Treasurer's office at 580-323-2292 ahead of the sale.

Sale format and venue
Custer County runs the resale in person. Oklahoma law directs the treasurer to offer the property at the treasurer's office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the advertised day and to continue from day to day until every parcel is sold, with the exact hours set locally, and the Treasurer's office names no online auction site or outside auction company. Bidding is public and goes to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. No parcel may sell for less than two-thirds of its current assessed value or the total taxes, penalties, interest and costs due, whichever of those two is lower, and a municipality holding liens on a parcel may set a reserve. Anything that draws no qualifying bid is bid off in the name of the county, and county-held property can be sold later by the treasurer after published notice with county commissioner approval, or at a periodic county auction. The Treasurer also posts a resale excess list for owners claiming surplus proceeds, which are held for one year after the sale. Confirm the format with the office before travelling, because a treasurer may now move the June resale to an online auction.
Source: Custer County Treasurer, Official Site· Verified Aug 31, 2026

Custer County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Custer 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.

  1. Get the advertised list

    Use Resale property list for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    The Treasurer's office publishes no separate bidder registration packet. Full requirements are in the sale card above.

  3. 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.

  4. Confirm with the office

    If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Custer County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Custer County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    Pull the current advertised parcels from Resale property list. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    The Treasurer's office publishes no separate bidder registration packet. Resale property is sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds, so plan to bring certified funds and confirm identification and payment terms with the Treasurer's office at 580-323-2292 ahead of the sale.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

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

Custer County Treasurer

580-323-2292

675 B Street, Suite 101, Arapaho, OK 73620 (mailing: PO Box 200, Arapaho, OK 73620)

Official website

County notes

  • A resale tax deed from the June sale cancels the delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties and costs and vests absolute and perfect title in fee simple, subject to any claim the state holds. No action to set the deed aside may be brought more than twelve months after it is filed with the County Clerk, and a person under legal disability keeps one year after that disability ends to redeem. The deed conveys only the surface and surface rights plus whatever mineral interest the surface owner held, so minerals severed to someone else do not pass, which matters on the rural tracts in this county.
  • Property reaches the Custer County resale when taxes have gone unpaid for three years or more from the date they first became due. The owner, or anyone holding a legal or equitable interest, may redeem at any time up to the moment the resale auction starts by paying the delinquent sum with interest at the statutory rate, so parcels on the published list can come off it right up to the opening of bidding.
  • The Treasurer publishes through oktaxrolls.com, a portal shared by 74 of Oklahoma's 77 counties, and the resale documents sit in a shared file area. Reach the Custer County list through the Treasurer's own county page rather than a search result, and check that the document header names Janet Roulet and Custer County before relying on a date or a parcel.

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.
Governing statute
Okla. Stat. tit. 68, Article 31 (68 O.S. 3101 et seq.)

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Does Custer County, Oklahoma sell tax liens or tax deeds?

Tax deeds. Oklahoma sells no tax lien certificates to investors; the County Treasurer sells the property itself at a public tax sale.

How often does Custer County hold tax deed sales?

Custer 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. Oklahoma's redemption rule: Until the June resale auction starts; there is no post-sale redemption. Call the Custer County Treasurer 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 Custer County tax sale list?

Custer County posts its tax sale list at oktaxrolls.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 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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