Morris County, TX tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Morris 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 the county’s own official pages on Jul 27, 2026.
How tax deed sales work in Morris County, seat of Daingerfield: 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
- First Tuesday of the month at the courthouse when there is judgment inventory to sell.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- No online bidder registration and no county-published registration form.
- County office
- 903-645-2446
On this page
How Morris County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Morris County Sheriff's Office (Sheriff Jack Martin). Delinquent-tax suits are prosecuted by Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP, attorney for the plaintiff taxing units.
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- First Tuesday of the month at the courthouse when there is judgment inventory to sell.
- Registration
- No online bidder registration and no county-published registration form.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
No online bidder registration and no county-published registration form. Bidding is in person at the courthouse east door, and the Notice of Sale states the Sheriff "will proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder." The notice sets the minimum bid as "the lesser of the amount awarded in the judgment or tax warrant plus interest and costs or the adjudged value," except that a person owning an interest in the property or a party to the suit must bid "the aggregate amount of the judgments or tax warrants against the property plus all costs of suit and sale." Morris County does not publish a Tax Code 34.015 written-statement procedure online, so confirm with the Tax Assessor-Collector whether a written statement of no delinquent taxes is required before you bid.
Sale format and venue
Morris County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Morris 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
Use Morris County Notice of Sale (August 4, 2026 tax sale list) for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
First Tuesday of the month at the courthouse when there is judgment inventory to sell. 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.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Morris County Sheriff's Office (Sheriff Jack Martin). Delinquent-tax suits are prosecuted by Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP, attorney for the plaintiff taxing units. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Morris County
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Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Morris County Notice of Sale (August 4, 2026 tax sale list). Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
No online bidder registration and no county-published registration form. Bidding is in person at the courthouse east door, and the Notice of Sale states the Sheriff "will proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder." The notice sets the minimum bid as "the lesser of the amount awarded in the judgment or tax warrant plus interest and costs or the adjudged value," except that a person owning an interest in the property or a party to the suit must bid "the aggregate amount of the judgments or tax warrants against the property plus all costs of suit and sale." Morris County does not publish a Tax Code 34.015 written-statement procedure online, so confirm with the Tax Assessor-Collector whether a written statement of no delinquent taxes is required before you bid.
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
- Sales are in person only. The Sheriff sells at the Eastside Door of the Morris County Courthouse, 500 Broadnax Street, Daingerfield, on the first Tuesday of the month.
- Bidding opens at 1:00 PM under the current notice, inside the 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM window. Payment is cash to the highest bidder.
- The current notice covers 17 tracts and includes struck-off property offered for resale, so first-time sales and resales run at the same auction.
- Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP is the delinquent-tax law firm. Its taxsales.lgbs.com portal is a listing and email-alert service linked from both the county and appraisal district sites, not an online bidding platform.
- Sale lists are published as PDFs on morriscad.com under Forms. The file name changes each sale, so check the Forms index for the current notice.
- The Tax Assessor-Collector office page describes vehicle and voter registration duties and does not publish tax sale procedures, so call the office or the Sheriff for bidder requirements.
- Morris County Sheriff's Office: 502 Union Street, Daingerfield, TX 75638, (903) 645-2232. Linebarger's listed contact for sale questions is (903) 597-2897.
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.
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