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Johnston County, OK tax sales

How tax deed sales work in Johnston County, seat of Tishomingo: 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.

Next sale
Second Monday of June each year.
Format
In person
Registration
Bidding is open to the public and happens in person at the Treasurer's office, 403 W.
County office
580-371-3082
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How Johnston 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
Run by
Johnston County Treasurer
Frequency
annual
Typical timing
Second Monday of June each year.
Registration
Bidding is open to the public and happens in person at the Treasurer's office, 403 W.
Sale list
June 2026 resale list
When it runs
Second Monday of June each year. The Treasurer's office states that "the tax resale is held each year on the second Monday of June in the County Treasurer's office between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m." and the sale continues day to day until every parcel has been offered. The county's published 2026 list carried a sale date of June 8, 2026, covering 35 parcels.
Registration and deposit

Bidding is open to the public and happens in person at the Treasurer's office, 403 W. Main, Suite 103, Tishomingo. No pre-registration, bidder deposit, or online enrollment is announced for the June resale; bidders appear on sale day and bid at the counter. Winning bids are payable in cash, and the purchaser also owes the county's listing, advertising, and recording fees on top of the bid, so confirm accepted payment forms with the office at 580-371-3082 before you attend. The separate Commissioners' sale of county-held property does require a deposit up front to cover advertising.

Sale format and venue
A parcel reaches the resale once its taxes have gone unpaid for three years or more measured from the date they first became due and payable, under 68 O.S. 3105(A). The Treasurer's office states the same rule as a tax lien the county has held for three full years. Bidding opens at the total of delinquent taxes, penalties, fees, and costs, and 68 O.S. 3129(B) requires every parcel to sell for at least the lesser of that total or two-thirds of the current assessed value; anything short of that is bid off to the county. The owner may redeem at any point up until the Treasurer executes the deed under 68 O.S. 3113, so there is no post-sale redemption period to wait out. The Treasurer files the resale return with the County Clerk and delivers the deed within thirty days under 68 O.S. 3131, which cancels the prior delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties, and any outstanding tax sale certificates and vests absolute and perfect title in fee simple, subject to claims the state may hold. Challenges to the deed must be brought within twelve months of recording. Where a parcel sells for more than the taxes and costs due, the surplus is held one year for the record owner. The sale is conducted in person at the courthouse office in Tishomingo; the county uses no online auction platform for the resale. In-person auction at the Treasurer's office
Source: Johnston County Treasurer· Verified Aug 31, 2026

Johnston County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Johnston 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 June 2026 resale list for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    Bidding is open to the public and happens in person at the Treasurer's office, 403 W. Full requirements are in the sale card above.

  3. Sale day

    Second Monday of June each year. 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 Johnston County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Johnston County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    Pull the current advertised parcels from June 2026 resale list. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    Bidding is open to the public and happens in person at the Treasurer's office, 403 W. Main, Suite 103, Tishomingo. No pre-registration, bidder deposit, or online enrollment is announced for the June resale; bidders appear on sale day and bid at the counter. Winning bids are payable in cash, and the purchaser also owes the county's listing, advertising, and recording fees on top of the bid, so confirm accepted payment forms with the office at 580-371-3082 before you attend. The separate Commissioners' sale of county-held property does require a deposit up front to cover advertising.

  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

Johnston County Treasurer

580-371-3082

403 W. Main, Suite 103, Tishomingo, OK 73460

Official website

County notes

  • Oklahoma sells deeds, not liens. Johnston County holds one tax sale a year, the June resale, and the buyer walks away with a resale tax deed rather than an interest-bearing certificate. There is no October certificate sale and no investor yield to bid on.
  • The resale deed conveys the surface, surface rights, and only those mineral interests still owned by the surface owner under 68 O.S. 3119. Severed minerals held by someone else survive the sale untouched, which matters on the rural acreage that makes up much of this roll.
  • Parcels that draw no qualifying bid are deeded to the Board of County Commissioners. The Treasurer can later sell that county-held property once a bid comes in, subject to Commissioners' approval, and the bidder must first post a deposit covering the cost of advertising the sale.
  • The Treasurer publishes through the statewide Oklahoma tax roll portal that all 77 counties share, so a resale list reached from a search result can belong to a neighboring county. Check that the header reads Johnston County Treasurer before you rely on a date or a parcel.
  • Office hours are 8:30 to 4:30. Call 580-371-3082 to confirm the current year's date and parcel count before travelling to Tishomingo.

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 Johnston 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 Johnston County hold tax deed sales?

Johnston County holds its tax deed sale once a year. Second Monday of June each 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 Johnston 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 Johnston County tax sale list?

Johnston 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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