Campbell County, SD tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Campbell County, SD tax sale, one of 3,131 counties in 51 states. South Dakota sells tax lien certificates paying up to 10%. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from state rules plus what the county publishes on Oct 6, 2026.
How tax lien and tax deed sales work in Campbell County, seat of Mound City: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how South Dakota tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next tax deed sale
- There is no annual deed auction calendar.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- No standing bidder registration exists.
- County office
- (605) 955-3388
On this page
How Campbell County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- Campbell County Treasurer
- Frequency
- annual
- Next expected
- on the third Monday in December, 2026 (window; exact date posts closer to the sale)
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Sale format and venue
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Campbell County Board of Commissioners
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- There is no annual deed auction calendar.
- Registration
- No standing bidder registration exists.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
No standing bidder registration exists. The published notice gives the terms for each sale. Under the state surplus-property law, sealed bids are filed with the county and opened at a commission meeting at the time stated in the notice. The county may refuse a bid from anyone not current on all property taxes due in the county. Call the Auditor at (605) 955-3366 to confirm where bids are filed and when they are opened.
Sale format and venue
Campbell County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Campbell 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.
Confirm the advertised parcel list
Use Campbell County delinquent tax notice in South Dakota newspaper legal notices (filter by Campbell County or the Prairie Pioneer) as a starting reference. Check which sale or list it covers; a Lands Available or office information page is separate from an auction parcel list. Ask the sale office for the advertised parcels for the auction you plan to attend.Register to bid
Sale day
There is no annual deed auction calendar. The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the Campbell County Board of Commissioners before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use the Campbell County Board of Commissioners as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Campbell County
4 checks
Confirm the parcel list before pricing
Open Campbell County delinquent tax notice in South Dakota newspaper legal notices (filter by Campbell County or the Prairie Pioneer). Confirm whether this reference contains the auction parcels or covers a different list. Get the advertised parcel list from the county before you price a bid, and recheck it before the sale.Confirm registration and deposit
No standing bidder registration exists. The published notice gives the terms for each sale. Under the state surplus-property law, sealed bids are filed with the county and opened at a commission meeting at the time stated in the notice. The county may refuse a bid from anyone not current on all property taxes due in the county. Call the Auditor at (605) 955-3366 to confirm where bids are filed and when they are opened.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the South Dakota 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 South Dakota 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 liens and deeds
Three routes exist and each runs through a county office. A certificate that stayed unsold for want of bidders must be sold at private sale at the treasurer's office to any person who pays the taxes, penalty and costs due. A person may also buy the county's interest in a certificate the treasurer bid off, by paying the taxes, penalty, interest and costs of sale and transfer plus every unpaid and subsequent tax, after which the treasurer assigns the certificate and the buyer holds the rights of an original purchaser. Both routes are closed in a county whose commissioners have not waived SDCL 10-23-28.1. Separately, tax deed property the county offered that drew no bid may be sold at private sale within twelve months for not less than ninety percent of the appraised value, without further publication or appraisal. Ask the county treasurer about certificates and the county auditor about unsold deeded parcels.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what South Dakota calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
111 2nd St NE, Mound City, SD 57646 (mail: PO Box 8, Mound City, SD 57646)
County notes
- Campbell County does not sell tax certificates to the public. The county commission recorded that decision at its January 4, 2024 meeting, and under SDCL 10-23-28.1 the county holds every certificate it issues unless the commission adopts a waiver resolution. Ask the Treasurer at (605) 955-3388 whether that policy still stands before committing capital.
- The Treasurer publishes the delinquent tax notice in the Prairie Pioneer, which the commission designated as the county's legal newspaper. The notice lists each delinquent parcel with the owner and the amount due.
- An outside buyer's opening comes later: property the county takes by tax deed must be declared surplus and sold within one year, after at least two published notices. Watch the Prairie Pioneer legal notices or the South Dakota Public Notices archive for those sales.
- The Treasurer and the county Auditor both work in Mound City. The Auditor, Lisa Perman, at (605) 955-3366, handles commission business, including bids on surplus property.
South Dakota rules
- Redemption
- There is no fixed redemption deadline that starts at the sale. SDCL 10-24-1 lets any person redeem at any time before a tax deed is issued. What sets the outer limit is the deed process: SDCL 10-25-1 bars the certificate holder from starting that process until three years after the certificate sale, and SDCL 10-25-8 keeps the right to redeem alive until sixty days after the affidavit of completed service of the notice of intention is filed with the treasurer. Missing that sixty-day window passes the owner's, mortgagee's and lienholder's interests to the certificate holder. After the deed is recorded, the former owner has one hundred eighty days to bring an action to recover possession or to avoid the deed, which is a limitation period rather than a further right to redeem.
- Deed deposit
- Chapter 6-13 sets no deposit for a cash sale. A buyer taking an installment contract must deposit the cash portion with the fiscal officer as soon as the bid is accepted, and the board can still decline to approve the sale, in which case the deposit is returned. A separate rule bars a bidder from the sale entirely: under SDCL 10-25-45 a county may refuse a bid from any person who is not current on all property taxes due within that county. Payment methods and any county-set deposit are county practice rather than statute, so confirm them with the county before bidding.
- Surplus proceeds
- The county first deducts the expenses of taking the tax deed and of the sale. What remains is prorated to the taxing districts on the levies for the most recent year included in the proceeds until all tax and interest is paid. Any surplus left after taxes, penalty, interest, county liens and other costs must be returned to the prior owner of record, and if that owner cannot be found within one hundred eighty days the surplus is transferred to the Unclaimed Property Division under SDCL chapter 43-41B. The same distribution binds a private buyer. SDCL 10-25-39.2, effective February 12, 2024, requires any person other than a county who acquires property by tax deed after being issued a tax certificate to offer that property at public auction under chapter 6-13 within one year of the deed, and entitles that seller only to compensation in the same manner as a redemption under SDCL 10-24-1. A South Dakota certificate is therefore a route to being paid what the certificate is worth, not a route to keeping the land.
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 Oct 6, 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 office that runs the sale before you bid.
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