Dawson County, TX tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Dawson County, seat of Lamesa: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
Verified Jul 27, 2026 against official county and state sources.
New here? Read how Texas tax sales work, the difference between a lien and a deed, and redemption periods.
How Dawson County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
Details are being verified for this county.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Dawson County Sheriff's Office (Sheriff Matt Hogg), the statutory sale officer under Texas Tax Code Chapter 34. Delinquent property taxes for every taxing unit in the county are collected by the Dawson County Central Appraisal District, not by the County Tax Assessor-Collector.
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Not published by Dawson County. No sale calendar, notice of sale, or struck-off list appears on the county website (co.dawson.tx.us) or on the appraisal district site (dawsoncad.org). Texas Tax Code 34.01 places sales on the first Tuesday of the month between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the county courthouse, and Dawson County would follow that framework, but the specific months this county holds sales were not confirmed on any official page. Call the Sheriff's Office at 806-872-7560 to confirm the next sale date.
Registration and deposit
No Dawson County bidder registration page was found. Texas Tax Code 34.015 requires a bidder to deliver to the officer conducting the sale a written statement from the county assessor-collector showing no delinquent taxes are owed. Request that statement from the Dawson County Tax Assessor-Collector at 806-872-7181 and confirm deposit and payment terms with the Sheriff's Office before the sale. Registration steps, deposit amounts, and payment methods are not published online.
Dawson County publishes no tax sale page. The county website lists office pages for the Sheriff, Constable, County Clerk, and Tax Assessor-Collector, and it hosts a Notice of Trustee Sale archive, but those postings are lender foreclosures under Property Code 51.002 rather than Tax Code Chapter 34 tax sales. Property tax collection sits with the Dawson County Central Appraisal District; the Texas Comptroller county directory states of the Tax Assessor-Collector office, "This tax office does not collect property taxes." No online auction platform was verified for Dawson County. The county is absent from the 150-county list served by Linebarger Goggan Blair and Sampson's tax sale site, absent from MVBA's August and September 2026 Texas tax sale schedule, and absent from MVBA's live auction feed, and no Dawson listing was found on GovEase. Treat this as an in-person courthouse sale conducted by the Sheriff or Constable until an official county source says otherwise, and verify everything by phone before bidding.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
Texas has no over-the-counter certificate list. Parcels that draw no sufficient bid are struck off to the taxing unit that requested the order of sale, and that unit may resell them at any time by public or private sale. A public resale requested through the sheriff or constable may be sold for any amount. A private sale generally may not go below the lesser of the market value stated in the judgment or the total judgments against the property, unless every taxing unit entitled to proceeds consents. Ask the county or its delinquent-tax law firm for the current struck-off inventory.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Notes for Dawson County
- Property tax collection is handled by the Dawson County Central Appraisal District, not the County Tax Assessor-Collector. Chief Appraiser Norma J. Brock, phone 806-872-7060, fax 806-872-2364, email [email protected], P.O. Box 797, Lamesa, TX 79331-0797. The Texas Comptroller county directory lists the district office at 1806 Lubbock Hwy., Lamesa, TX 79331-3326. The appraisal district site states it "Appraises and Collects For All Of The Above Entities" (Dawson County, City of Lamesa, Lamesa ISD, Dawson ISD, Klondike ISD, Mesa Underground Water District, Dawson County Hospital).
- Sale officers: Sheriff Matt Hogg, 806-872-7560, fax 806-872-9396, P.O. Box 1268, Lamesa, TX 79331-1268. Constable Tommy Flores, 806-872-7560, [email protected]. Neither office page mentions tax sales, execution sales, or civil process online.
- Address conflict worth flagging: the county website shows the Tax Assessor-Collector at the courthouse, 400 S. 1st Street, Lamesa, TX 79331, while the Texas Comptroller county directory lists 502 N. 1st St., Lamesa, TX 79331-5406. Both agree on the mailing address P.O. Box 1268, Lamesa, TX 79331-1268 and the phone 806-872-7181.
- The county's Notice of Trustee Sale page archives scanned foreclosure postings by year from 2017 through 2026. Sampled 2026 PDFs are image scans with no extractable text, and the page is an index only, with no dates, times, locations, or firm names shown in HTML. These are deed of trust foreclosures, not Chapter 34 tax sales.
- No delinquent tax law firm was confirmed for Dawson County. The county is not on Linebarger Goggan Blair and Sampson's tax sale county list, and it does not appear on MVBA's monthly Texas tax sale schedule or auction feed. Perdue Brandon (pbfcm.com) publishes no tax sale listing section and its pages currently carry injected casino spam links, so it was not treated as a usable source.
- The appraisal district's Useful Links page points to a City of Lamesa Trustee Property page operated by Texas Communities Group (texascg.com), a Lubbock real estate firm. That page returned zero results for Lamesa when checked and covers city trustee property resales, not the county's Chapter 34 sheriff sale.
- Research limitation: the session's web search budget was exhausted, so discovery relied on direct fetches of official county, appraisal district, Comptroller, and law firm auction sources plus programmatic checks of the LGBS and MVBA county lists. A follow-up phone call to the Sheriff's Office and the appraisal district is the fastest way to upgrade this county to high quality.
Texas statewide rules
- Redemption
- The redemption clock runs from the date the purchaser's deed is filed for record, not from the sale date. Property that was the owner's residence homestead or was land designated for agricultural use when the suit or the warrant application was filed, and any mineral interest, may be redeemed on or before the second anniversary of that filing. Every other property may be redeemed only through the 180th day after the deed is filed. When a parcel is struck off to a taxing unit instead, the period runs from the date the taxing unit's deed is filed for record. The former owner has no right to use, possess, or collect rent from the property while the redemption right runs, and the right of redemption cannot be sold or transferred: any instrument purporting to transfer it is void.
- Deed deposit
- The Tax Code sets no statewide deposit and no buyer premium. Section 34.01 directs the officer to conduct the sale the way similar property is sold under execution, so payment terms are set locally by the officer who runs the sale. Most Texas counties collect the full bid in cash or by cashier's check on the day of the sale. Confirm the terms with the county before you bid.
- Homestead deeds
- Texas sets no separate opening bid for a homestead. What changes on a homestead parcel is the exit: a residence homestead, land designated for agricultural use when the suit or warrant application was filed, and a mineral interest all carry a two-year redemption right instead of 180 days, and the premium the owner pays can reach 50 percent in the second year. Price a homestead parcel for that longer clock.
- Surplus proceeds
- The officer pays any excess proceeds to the clerk of the court that issued the order of sale. The clerk holds the excess for two years after the sale and notifies the former owner when the amount exceeds $25. A claim must be filed before the second anniversary of the sale. The court pays established claims in statutory priority: a purchaser at a sale later adjudged void, taxing units for post-judgment or omitted taxes, other lienholders, taxing units for unsatisfied judgment amounts, and then the former owner. Anything unclaimed is distributed to the taxing units.
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 Dawson County, Texas sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Dawson County follows Texas's redeemable deed state system.
How often does Dawson County hold tax deed sales?
- annual. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.
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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