Latimer County, OK tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Latimer County, seat of Wilburton: 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.
- Announcements
- Latimer County does not publish a county owned property list, though some neighbouring counties do.
- Format
- In person
- County office
- 918-465-3450
On this page
How Latimer County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Latimer County Treasurer
- Frequency
- annual
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Latimer County publishes no bidder registration form and no deposit schedule, so plan to register at the Treasurer's office on sale morning and call 918-465-3450 beforehand to confirm the start hour. Bring funds with you. The county states "This is a cash only sale unless you bank locally. If you do bank locally, we allow one hour to get a cashier's check otherwise you must have cash in hand." The winning bidder also pays the county clerk's recording fee and the county's cost of preparing, listing and advertising the tract, charged on top of the bid.
Sale format and venue
Latimer County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Latimer 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 Latimer County Resale Property List, on the Treasurer's site for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.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 Latimer County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Latimer County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Latimer County Resale Property List, on the Treasurer's site. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Latimer County publishes no bidder registration form and no deposit schedule, so plan to register at the Treasurer's office on sale morning and call 918-465-3450 beforehand to confirm the start hour. Bring funds with you. The county states "This is a cash only sale unless you bank locally. If you do bank locally, we allow one hour to get a cashier's check otherwise you must have cash in hand." The winning bidder also pays the county clerk's recording fee and the county's cost of preparing, listing and advertising the tract, charged on top of the bid.
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
- An Oklahoma resale deed does not carry severed minerals. Under 68 O.S. 3119 it conveys only the surface, the surface rights, and whatever mineral interest the surface owner still held, and it conveys no interest owned by anyone else. Read the legal descriptions closely as well, because several tracts on the Latimer list are undivided fractional interests rather than whole parcels, described with fractions such as a one eighteenth or one sixth interest.
- The deed itself is strong once it survives its first year. Under 68 O.S. 3131 issuing the resale deed cancels the delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties and costs and vests absolute and perfect title in fee simple, subject to any claim the state may have for taxes or other liens. 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 a legal disability has one year after that disability ends to redeem.
- There is no waiting period after the sale, but there is one right up to it. Under 68 O.S. 3113 the owner, or anyone holding a legal or equitable interest, may redeem at any time before the Treasurer executes the deed. Parcels therefore drop off the roster right until they are offered, so expect the printed list to be shorter on sale morning.
- This is a small, low dollar sale. The 2026 Latimer list carried nine parcels, one a town lot in Wilburton and the rest rural tracts described by section, township and range. Minimum bids ran from roughly $342 to about $1,423, because the floor is the lesser of two thirds of assessed value or the full amount due and the list prints both numbers.
- A parcel reaches the resale only after a long delinquency. Taxes must have gone unpaid for three years or more from the date they first became due, which is why the 2026 Latimer list ran tax years 2022 through 2025 on every parcel.
- Several Oklahoma county treasurers publish through the same shared web system, and the resale documents it links are not labelled by county before you open them. Confirm the header of any list you open reads Latimer County Treasurer before you rely on a date, a parcel or a figure, because a neighbouring county's resale list looks identical in layout.
- Latimer County does not publish a county owned property list, though some neighbouring counties do. Property the county takes at resale can still be bought afterwards: under 68 O.S. 3135 the Treasurer may sell it on a published bid subject to approval by the county commissioners, or hold a periodic auction for cash or certified funds. Call the Treasurer's office at 918-465-3450 to ask what the county currently holds.
- If a tract sells for more than the taxes, penalties, interest and costs due, 68 O.S. 3131 holds the surplus for the record owner as of the day the resale began, claimable for one year before it passes to the county resale property fund. An assignment of that right made on or after the day the resale began is not valid. The Treasurer's office keeps 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. hours Monday through Friday, and its tax roll inquiry lets you search by owner, legal description or township and range and filter to unpaid taxes only, which is the quickest way to check a parcel before June.
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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