Lamb County, TX tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Lamb 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 Lamb County, seat of Littlefield: 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
- Lamb County publishes no tax sale calendar.
- Registration
- No county-published registration procedure, deposit rule, or bidder account was found.
- County office
- (806) 485-0062
On this page
How Lamb County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Lamb County Sheriff's Office (Sheriff Gary Maddox), acting for the Lamb County Tax Assessor - Collector and Voter Registrar
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Lamb County publishes no tax sale calendar.
- Registration
- No county-published registration procedure, deposit rule, or bidder account was found.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
No county-published registration procedure, deposit rule, or bidder account was found. Texas Tax Code 34.015 requires a bidder to present a written statement from the county assessor-collector certifying no delinquent taxes are owed; request that statement from the Lamb County Tax Assessor - Collector and Voter Registrar, 100 6th Drive, Room 105, Littlefield, TX 79339, (806) 485-0062.
Sale format and venue
Lamb County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Lamb 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
Lamb County publishes no tax sale list online. The Lamb County Sheriff's Office (Sheriff Gary Maddox), acting for the Lamb County Tax Assessor - Collector and Voter Registrar 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) 485-0062 to ask for the current advertisement.Register to bid
Sale day
Lamb County publishes no tax sale calendar. 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 Lamb County Sheriff's Office (Sheriff Gary Maddox), acting for the Lamb County Tax Assessor - Collector and Voter Registrar as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Lamb County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
There is no online list to price against. Lamb County advertises the parcels before the sale rather than posting them, so get the advertisement from the office on (806) 485-0062 and price from the parcel numbers it carries.Confirm registration and deposit
No county-published registration procedure, deposit rule, or bidder account was found. Texas Tax Code 34.015 requires a bidder to present a written statement from the county assessor-collector certifying no delinquent taxes are owed; request that statement from the Lamb County Tax Assessor - Collector and Voter Registrar, 100 6th Drive, Room 105, Littlefield, TX 79339, (806) 485-0062.
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
- Tax Assessor - Collector and Voter Registrar: Tammy Kirkland, 100 6th Drive, Room 105, Littlefield, TX 79339, phone (806) 485-0062, fax (806) 385-6485.
- Sheriff: Gary Maddox, Lamb County Sheriff's Office, 1200 East Waylon, Littlefield, TX 79339, phone (806) 385-7900, fax (806) 385-9400. The sheriff is the statutory sale officer under Texas Tax Code 34.01.
- Lamb County Courthouse: 100 6th Drive, Littlefield, Texas 79339, main phone (806) 385-4222.
- The county website's "Notice of Sheriffs Sale" page (/page/lamb.SheriffSale) returns HTTP 403 and could not be read. An archived November 2024 snapshot of that page contained only a "Sheriff Sale Seized Items Auction Rules" PDF, which concerns seized personal property, not delinquent property tax sales. The PDF itself is now a dead link.
- The county's "Foreclosures" page is maintained by County Clerk Tonya Ritchie and holds Notice of Trustee's Sale filings scanned since January 1, 2017. These are mortgage foreclosures and must not be presented as tax sales.
- Lamb County is absent from the Linebarger (taxsales.lgbs.com) Texas county list and from MVBA's monthly Texas tax sale schedule, so neither firm's portal carries its sale list.
- Perdue Brandon Fielder Collins & Mott's website (pbfcm.com) was fetched and is currently defaced with injected spam links, so it was not used as a source and no law firm was confirmed for Lamb County.
- The Lamb County Appraisal District (1500 E Delano Ave / P.O. Box 950, Littlefield, TX 79339, (806) 385-6474, Chief Appraiser Lesa Kloiber) publishes no tax sale information but does link struck-off trust property bidding for Littlefield and Amherst to Texas Communities Group.
- Recommended follow-up: call the Tax Assessor - Collector at (806) 485-0062 and the Sheriff's Office at (806) 385-7900 to obtain the delinquent tax attorney, the designated sale area, and the sale notice posting location.
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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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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