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Pontotoc County, OK tax sales

How tax deed sales work in Pontotoc County, seat of Ada: 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
Annually on the second Monday in June.
Format
In person
Registration
No pre-registration.
County office
580-332-0183
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How Pontotoc 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
Pontotoc County Treasurer, who advertises the resale, conducts the auction and executes the resale deed. The Pontotoc County Clerk records it.
Frequency
annual
Typical timing
Annually on the second Monday in June.
Registration
No pre-registration.
Sale list
Delinquent Tax Info, the Pontotoc County Treasurer's resale documents
When it runs
Annually on the second Monday in June. The Treasurer's 2026 resale information sheet set the sale to "officially open on the Court House Lawn at 9:00 a.m. on the 8th day of June, 2026" and to "continue from day to day between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. until completed, recessing from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. for lunch, if needed." If it rains, bidders check in at the Treasurer's office for instructions. The resale notice ran on May 6, 13, 20 and 27 ahead of that sale, so the parcel schedule reaches print through May.
Registration and deposit

No pre-registration. Bidders sign in on the morning of the sale, and the Treasurer posts a blank sign-in form beforehand that you may fill out and bring with you. Every bidder signs an "Affidavit of Land Ownership: Individual" as part of that sign-in, a step the county added in 2024. Anyone bidding on behalf of another person, a firm or a corporation must say so at sign-in, because the statutory deed form requires that information. Bidding rises in $25 increments only: the first bid is the minimum and every bid after it must be a multiple of $25. All sales are for cash or cashier's check. After the last property is sold the Treasurer recesses for one hour so winning bidders can fetch more cash or a cashier's check. Budget $42.44 per deed on top of the bid, made up of a $10.00 Treasurer deed fee, a $22.00 County Clerk filing fee and a $10.44 certified mail fee.

Sale format and venue
Pontotoc County sells the deed itself at one in-person auction a year, on the courthouse lawn at 100 W. 13th Street in Ada. There is no online bidding portal and no third-party auction site. A parcel reaches the resale only after its taxes have gone unpaid for three years or more. The minimum bid on each parcel is the total delinquent tax, penalties, fees, costs and special assessments due as of the sale date, or two-thirds of the assessed value fixed for the current fiscal year, whichever is lower. A municipality that has placed an abatement may ask the Treasurer in writing to raise the minimum bid to cover everything owed against the parcel, which does not apply to nuisance property. Where no bid comes in, the deed goes to the county, and the county itself cannot bid, though a municipality holding a lien may bid if it gave notice before sale day. An owner or anyone with a legal or equitable interest may redeem up to the moment the sale begins, and that person may not then bid on the parcel. Deeds are completed as soon as practical and mailed by certified mail, restricted delivery, or held for pickup if you ask. You have no right to enter the property until the deed is issued, and the Treasurer advises making no major changes for a year. Where a parcel carries a manufactured home that a secured party may repossess, the Treasurer announces it before that parcel is offered. This is a buyer beware sale: federal, state, Oklahoma Health Care Authority and city liens can survive and become the buyer's problem to clear. The resale deed gives title but not clear marketable title, no abstract comes with it, and a quiet title suit is usually needed before you can insure the property or borrow against it. Anyone with an interest has one year to challenge the deed in court, longer in rare cases such as a minor heir, who gets a year from turning 18. The deed issued is an individual deed, so buyers who want more than one name on title file a joint tenancy deed with the County Clerk.
Source: 2026 Resale Information Sheet, Pontotoc County Treasurer· Verified Aug 31, 2026

Pontotoc County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Pontotoc 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 Delinquent Tax Info, the Pontotoc County Treasurer's resale documents for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    No pre-registration. Full requirements are in the sale card above.

  3. Sale day

    Annually on the second Monday in June. 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 Pontotoc County Treasurer, who advertises the resale, conducts the auction and executes the resale deed. The Pontotoc County Clerk records it. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Pontotoc County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    Pull the current advertised parcels from Delinquent Tax Info, the Pontotoc County Treasurer's resale documents. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    No pre-registration. Bidders sign in on the morning of the sale, and the Treasurer posts a blank sign-in form beforehand that you may fill out and bring with you. Every bidder signs an "Affidavit of Land Ownership: Individual" as part of that sign-in, a step the county added in 2024. Anyone bidding on behalf of another person, a firm or a corporation must say so at sign-in, because the statutory deed form requires that information. Bidding rises in $25 increments only: the first bid is the minimum and every bid after it must be a multiple of $25. All sales are for cash or cashier's check. After the last property is sold the Treasurer recesses for one hour so winning bidders can fetch more cash or a cashier's check. Budget $42.44 per deed on top of the bid, made up of a $10.00 Treasurer deed fee, a $22.00 County Clerk filing fee and a $10.44 certified mail fee.

  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

Pontotoc County Treasurer

580-332-0183

100 W. 13th St., Room 122, Ada, OK 74820, mailing address P.O. Box 1808, Ada, OK 74821

Official website

County notes

  • This is a small sale. The June 8, 2026 resale offered 15 parcels and every one of them sold to a private bidder, with winning bids running from $275.06 to $20,000.00 and producing $73,626.65 in excess proceeds. Several parcels went to the same repeat local buyers, so expect competition on anything with a house on it and thin bidding on the low-value lots.
  • Bids above the taxes, penalties, interest and costs create excess proceeds that belong to the record owner, not to the buyer. The Treasurer publishes the list of owners owed money after each sale and holds it for one year: claims on the 2026 sale must be submitted before June 8, 2027. Warrants are made payable to the owner of record, identification plus proof of power of attorney or letters testamentary is required, and every claim goes to the District Attorney for approval.
  • 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 October auction date in Pontotoc County to plan around and no statutory interest rate to earn.
  • A Pontotoc County parcel becomes resale eligible once its taxes have been unpaid for three years or more counted from the date they first became due, not two.
  • From November 2025 Oklahoma law lets a treasurer move the June resale to an online auction. Pontotoc County held its June 2026 resale in person on the courthouse lawn, so confirm the format with the Treasurer's office at 580-332-0183 before making travel plans for a coming year.
  • The Treasurer does not post a standing list of property the county holds from past resales, and the 2026 sale left none unsold. Call the office at 580-332-0183 to ask what county-held property is available between resales.
  • Pontotoc County publishes its treasurer documents through the same statewide portal that serves all 77 Oklahoma counties, and the files sit in a shared document area. Confirm Pontotoc County is named on any notice, schedule or parcel list before you rely on it.
  • Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and the courthouse closes for county holidays, so call ahead in the week before the sale if you plan to visit in person.

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 Pontotoc 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 Pontotoc County hold tax deed sales?

Pontotoc County holds its tax deed sale once a year. Annually on the second Monday in June. 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 Pontotoc County Treasurer, who advertises the resale, conducts the auction and executes the resale deed. The Pontotoc County Clerk records it. 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 Pontotoc County tax sale list?

Pontotoc 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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