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Okmulgee County, OK tax sales

How tax deed sales work in Okmulgee County, seat of Okmulgee: 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
The county warns that cities sometimes forward those after the sale notice is published, and they can land on the buyer.
Format
In person
County office
918-756-3848
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How Okmulgee 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
Okmulgee County Treasurer
Frequency
annual
Sale list
Sale notices and resale lists, Okmulgee County Treasurer
When it runs
The resale is held on the second Monday of June and continues day to day until it concludes, the date Oklahoma law fixes for every county. Okmulgee County ran a live resale on that footing in 2025 and published the results by name the following week. The county runs a second, separate auction of the property it already owns: its notice reads "Monday, August 17, 2026 the Okmulgee County Treasurer will hold two separate sales at the Okmulgee County Fairgrounds located at 1901 N Oklahoma in Okmulgee, OK 74447," with the Commissioners Sale opening at 9 a.m. and the Treasurer's Sale at 9:30 a.m.
Registration and deposit

Bidders must be 18 or older, and anyone who owes delinquent property tax in Okmulgee County is barred from bidding. For its August county-owned property auction the Treasurer took pre-registration at the office from July 30 through August 14, 2026, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and registered bidders at the sale site from 8:00 a.m. on sale day until the sale concluded. Bring cash on sale day unless certified funds were submitted at pre-registration; certified funds are held in trust, applied to what you buy, and refunded within 10 business days. The county collects payment on each parcel before moving to the next, and bids rise in minimum $25 increments. Call the Treasurer at 918-756-3848 to confirm the registration window for the coming June resale.

Sale format and venue
The Okmulgee County Treasurer holds the delinquent roll, conducts the June resale and executes the resale deed; the County Clerk records it. A parcel reaches the resale once its taxes have gone unpaid for three years or more counted from the date they first became due, not two. Bidding is an ascending public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Okmulgee County uses no online auction site, so plan on bidding in person, and confirm the June resale location with the Treasurer's office; the county's August auction of property it already owns is held at the Okmulgee County Fairgrounds, 1901 N Oklahoma in Okmulgee. Winning bidders pay the bid plus per parcel costs the Treasurer collects at the sale. At the Commissioners Sale those are advertising of $150.12, a filing fee starting at $22, a $20 transcript fee, a $20 proof of publication fee, a $20 bid sheet fee and a $10 deed fee. At the Treasurer's Sale they are prorated advertising of $26, a filing fee starting at $22, a $20 transcript fee and a $10 deed fee. Deeds are approved by the Board of County Commissioners, then filed with the County Clerk by the Treasurer's office within 30 days of the sale, and you cannot resell until the deed is in hand. Property is sold by legal description rather than by the address shown on the tax roll, it is sold as is with no warranty of title, and all sales are final, so run a title search first and expect to quiet title afterward. You may drive by a parcel but have no right to enter it before the deed issues. An IRS lien leaves a 120 day right of redemption running from the deed date, and an Oklahoma Tax Commission lien can come back against the property later. Redemption by the owner ends when the resale auction starts and there is no redemption after that.
Source: August 17, 2026 Sale Information and Lists, Okmulgee County Treasurer· Verified Aug 31, 2026

Okmulgee County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Okmulgee 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 Sale notices and resale lists, Okmulgee County Treasurer for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.

  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 Okmulgee County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Okmulgee County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    Pull the current advertised parcels from Sale notices and resale lists, Okmulgee County Treasurer. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    Bidders must be 18 or older, and anyone who owes delinquent property tax in Okmulgee County is barred from bidding. For its August county-owned property auction the Treasurer took pre-registration at the office from July 30 through August 14, 2026, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and registered bidders at the sale site from 8:00 a.m. on sale day until the sale concluded. Bring cash on sale day unless certified funds were submitted at pre-registration; certified funds are held in trust, applied to what you buy, and refunded within 10 business days. The county collects payment on each parcel before moving to the next, and bids rise in minimum $25 increments. Call the Treasurer at 918-756-3848 to confirm the registration window for the coming June resale.

  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

Okmulgee County Treasurer

918-756-3848

314 W. 7th St., Ste. 201, Okmulgee, OK 74447

Official website

County notes

  • The Okmulgee County Treasurer posts sale documents under two headings, Commissioner's Sale and June Resale. The Commissioner's Sale heading carries the notice, bidding terms and starting bid lists for the county's auction of property it already owns, and the June Resale heading carries the excess proceeds breakdown from the last resale. The June resale parcel list is not posted year round, so call the Treasurer at 918-756-3848 for the current one.
  • Okmulgee County sells in person and uses no online bidding platform. Its August auction of county-owned property runs at the Okmulgee County Fairgrounds, 1901 N Oklahoma in Okmulgee. Confirm where the June resale itself is held before sale day.
  • The county keeps an inventory of county-owned property and sells it between resales. Its most recent auction, on Monday, August 17, 2026, ran two consecutive sales at the Fairgrounds, a Commissioners Sale at 9 a.m. and a Treasurer's Sale at 9:30 a.m., with published starting bids as low as $1 on Okmulgee and Henryetta town lots and most of the roster under $200. Parcels drawing no bid stay in county ownership and carry over.
  • Okmulgee County's 2025 resale drew real competition, with named winning bidders on parcel after parcel and $45,920.76 returned as excess proceeds above the taxes, penalties and costs owed. The Treasurer publishes that breakdown by name, which is also the record a former owner or lienholder uses to claim the surplus.
  • 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 Okmulgee County certificate auction to plan around.
  • Check the City of Okmulgee and the City of Henryetta for special assessments that have not yet been certified to the Treasurer as delinquent. The county warns that cities sometimes forward those after the sale notice is published, and they can land on the buyer.
  • The Treasurer makes the Oklahoma Health Care Authority lien list available to bidders at the annual resale, as state law requires. Parcels on that list may or may not be in the sale and the owner shown may be a previous owner, so match by legal description.
  • Okmulgee County shares one statewide treasurer portal with the other 76 Oklahoma counties, and its documents sit in a common file area. Confirm Okmulgee is named on any notice or list reached from the statewide county map before relying on it.

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 Okmulgee 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 Okmulgee County hold tax deed sales?

Okmulgee 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 Okmulgee 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 Okmulgee County tax sale list?

Okmulgee 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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