Mayes County, OK tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Mayes County, seat of Pryor: 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
- Register at the sale itself.
- County office
- 918-825-0160
On this page
How Mayes County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Mayes County Treasurer
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Register at the sale itself.
- Sale list
- June Resale Information Packet
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Register at the sale itself. To get a bidder number you sign in with your name, address and telephone number, and that sign-in sheet becomes part of the permanent sale record. You or your representative must attend in person, since this is an open, active auction rather than a sealed bid sale. Payment is cash only, with no checks and no credit cards accepted. On top of the winning bid you pay a $10 deed fee and roughly $20 to record the deed with the county clerk, more if extra affidavits are required.
Sale format and venue
Mayes County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Mayes 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 June Resale Information Packet 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 Mayes County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Mayes County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from June Resale Information Packet. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Register at the sale itself. To get a bidder number you sign in with your name, address and telephone number, and that sign-in sheet becomes part of the permanent sale record. You or your representative must attend in person, since this is an open, active auction rather than a sealed bid sale. Payment is cash only, with no checks and no credit cards accepted. On top of the winning bid you pay a $10 deed fee and roughly $20 to record the deed with the county clerk, more if extra affidavits are required.
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.
Use the arrow keys to switch between these sections.
County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- Mayes County's treasurer pages sit on a statewide platform shared by 74 of Oklahoma's 77 county treasurers, so pages and documents for neighbouring counties look identical. Check that any resale notice or bidder document carries the Mayes County Treasurer heading before acting on a date.
- Oklahoma abolished the tax lien certificate sale in 2008, and Mayes County holds no October certificate sale, not even a county-only bid-off. The only things an investor can buy here are a resale tax deed at the June sale or a county-held tract sold afterward.
- The delinquency trigger is three years, not two. Under 68 O.S. 3105 the treasurer sells at the June resale where taxes have gone unpaid for three years or more measured from the date the tax first became due and payable.
- There is no waiting period after the sale for the buyer. Under 68 O.S. 3113 an owner may redeem at any time before the treasurer executes the deed, paying the original delinquency plus interest, which the treasurer accrues at 1.5 percent per month on delinquent ad valorem taxes. Once the deed is executed that right ends, apart from a minor or an incapacitated owner who gets one year after the disability lifts.
- Excess proceeds above the taxes, penalties, interest and costs are held for the record owner as of the date the resale began, and go unclaimed to the county resale property fund after one year, so a tract bought well above the minimum bid does not return the overage to the buyer.
- Mayes County sheriff sales are mortgage and judgment foreclosures held at the front door on the west side of the courthouse, and are a separate process from the treasurer's tax resale. A sheriff sale listing is not a tax deed sale.
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
Does Mayes County, Oklahoma sell tax liens or tax deeds?
How often does Mayes County hold tax deed sales?
I own a property in this sale. Can I stop it?
Where can I find the Mayes County tax sale list?
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.
More Oklahoma counties
Browse all 77 Oklahoma counties
Compare sale calendars, platforms, and rules across the state, or read the guides before you bid.