Dawson County, TX tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Dawson County, TX tax sale, one of 2,553 counties in 30 states. Texas sells redeemable deeds carrying a 25% penalty in the first year. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from state rules plus what the county publishes on Jul 27, 2026.
How 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.
New to tax sales? Read how Texas tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- Not published by Dawson County.
- Registration
- No Dawson County bidder registration page was found.
- County office
- 806-872-7181
On this page
How Dawson County sells delinquent taxes
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.
- Registration
- No Dawson County bidder registration page was found.
When it runs
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.
Sale format and venue
Dawson County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Dawson 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.
Get the advertised list
Dawson County publishes no tax sale list online. The 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. advertises the parcels ahead of the sale rather than posting them, so the list reaches bidders through the county legal newspaper and the office itself. Call 806-872-7181 to ask for the current advertisement.Register to bid
Sale day
Not published by Dawson County. The auction platform is still being verified. Confirm the next sale date and registration window with the county before you bid.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use 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. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Dawson County
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Start with the live sale list
There is no online list to price against. Dawson County advertises the parcels before the sale rather than posting them, so get the advertisement from the office on 806-872-7181 and price from the parcel numbers it carries.Confirm 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.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Texas 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 Texas 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 properties
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 purchases work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Texas calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- 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 ca@dawsoncad.org, 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, tommy.flores@co.dawson.tx.us. 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 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
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I own a property in this sale. Can I stop it?
Verified Jul 27, 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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