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Pottawatomie County, OK tax sales

How tax deed sales work in Pottawatomie County, seat of Shawnee: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.

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Next sale
Annually on the second Monday in June.
Format
In person
Registration
There is no published pre-registration window and no online bidder account.
County office
(405) 273-0213
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How Pottawatomie 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
Pottawatomie County Treasurer, who publishes the resale notice, conducts the June auction and issues the resale deed. The Pottawatomie County Clerk records the deed.
Frequency
annual
Typical timing
Annually on the second Monday in June.
Registration
There is no published pre-registration window and no online bidder account.
Sale list
June resale packets and county-owned property list
When it runs
Annually on the second Monday in June. The Treasurer's tax calendar lists "Publication for the Resale to be held the 2nd Monday in June" from mid-May into the first of June, then "Second Monday in June: Tax Resale." The Treasurer's resale information states the sale "is always held the 2nd Monday in June from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., from day to day, until the sale is completed." The 2026 packet gives "Sale Date Monday June 8, 2026" and "Time 9:00 AM."
Registration and deposit

There is no published pre-registration window and no online bidder account. Show up at the sale location before the 9:00 a.m. start and be ready to pay on the spot: the Treasurer's resale information states the property "is auctioned off to the highest bidder for CASH ONLY." Bring cash for the full purchase price rather than a personal or cashier's check. Call the Treasurer's office at 405-273-0213 in the weeks before the sale to confirm bidder requirements and accepted payment forms for the current year, since the county publishes its bidder terms with the May and early-June resale advertising rather than year round.

Sale format and venue
Pottawatomie County sells at the counter, not online. The 2026 packet gives the venue as 309 N. Broadway in Shawnee and the Treasurer names no online auction platform, so plan to attend in person. Redemption runs right up to the gavel. The packet states the owner has "until 9:00am on June 8, 2026 to pay the property taxes and remove the property from the June Resale" and that the payment "has to be in the office and receipted prior to the start of sale as per Oklahoma Statute," citing 68 O.S. 3113, so parcels drop off the list on the morning of the sale and you should re-check the list before you bid. The Treasurer calls this a buyers beware sale, warns that assessor images and improvement records may be out of date because houses or buildings may no longer be standing, and tells bidders they are "not allowed to enter or trespass on any property that is on the June Resale until you have a deed in hand." Each listed account carries a downloadable real estate packet and parcel detail sits in the county's ACT DataScout records, so pull both and confirm no new liens have been filed since the abstractor report was compiled. The Treasurer's calendar describes the resale pool as accounts carrying four years of delinquent taxes, so the June list tends to run older than the three-year statutory floor. Work from the published list rather than your own count. Between resales the county resells what it took in at past resales through a commissioners sale: the Treasurer advertises the property, the Board of County Commissioners sets the starting bid, a $125.00 cash deposit toward publication costs is required, the property goes "to the highest competitive bidder, or to the original bidder if there be no higher price offered," and the board can reject any and all bids. If approval is given the board chairman executes the deed and the County Clerk mails it to the buyer after recording. Publication fees are not refundable if the board denies the sale.
Source: 2026 June Resale Packet and Acknowledgement, Pottawatomie County Treasurer· Verified Aug 31, 2026

Pottawatomie County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Pottawatomie 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 resale packets and county-owned property list for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    There is no published pre-registration window and no online bidder account. 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 Pottawatomie County Treasurer, who publishes the resale notice, conducts the June auction and issues the resale deed. The Pottawatomie County Clerk records the deed. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Pottawatomie County

  1. Start with the live sale list

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

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    There is no published pre-registration window and no online bidder account. Show up at the sale location before the 9:00 a.m. start and be ready to pay on the spot: the Treasurer's resale information states the property "is auctioned off to the highest bidder for CASH ONLY." Bring cash for the full purchase price rather than a personal or cashier's check. Call the Treasurer's office at 405-273-0213 in the weeks before the sale to confirm bidder requirements and accepted payment forms for the current year, since the county publishes its bidder terms with the May and early-June resale advertising rather than year round.

  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

Pottawatomie County Treasurer

(405) 273-0213

PO Box 3069, Shawnee, OK 74802-3069

Official website

County notes

  • The June resale is the only auction in Pottawatomie County that conveys anything to an investor. The Treasurer's own guidance for taxpayers states that "The October delinquent list is still published but due to changes in law, we no longer have an October Certificate Sale," so the September publication and the October date still shown on the county tax calendar do not lead to a bidder auction.
  • The county holds a standing inventory of property struck off to it at earlier resales, and the published list runs to dozens of pages. It is sold between resales at a commissioners sale on Board of County Commissioners approval, so check that inventory before waiting a year for the next June auction.
  • Parcels are identified by account number and legal description rather than by street address. Match the legal description, open the real estate packet for each account, and view the full payment history before you bid.
  • The Treasurer's office is at the county Administration Building in Shawnee and keeps a 24-hour drop box at the entrance. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed from noon to 1:00 p.m.

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 Pottawatomie 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 Pottawatomie County hold tax deed sales?

Pottawatomie 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 Pottawatomie County Treasurer, who publishes the resale notice, conducts the June auction and issues the resale deed. The Pottawatomie County Clerk records the deed. 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 Pottawatomie County tax sale list?

Pottawatomie 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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