Jefferson County, Kansas

Oct 1, 2026 · today

Tax Deedscheduledvia County site

Parcels

9 land-only hidden

Opening bids

62 lot(s) have no published opening bid

Redemption

None

clear title at sale

Quiet title

$2K–$5K

typically required

KS caveats

TWELVE MONTHS OF TITLE RISK AFTER THE SALE, AND IT PAYS NOTHING. K.S.A. 79-2804b allows an action to open, vacate, modify or set aside the judgment or order of sale within twelve months of confirmation. It is a defect window, not a redemption — the purchaser earns no penalty for waiting it out, so unlike a redeemable-deed state the wait is pure carry.
YOU DO NOT OWN IT AT THE HAMMER. Title passes on the court's confirmation of the sale, not at the auction. Before confirmation there is no right to possession and no right to collect rent, which matters if the parcel is tenanted.
The redemption is spent before you bid. K.S.A. 79-2401a holds county-bid real estate subject to redemption for one year if abandoned, two for general non-homestead property and three for a homestead; the judicial foreclosure follows only after that, and the last chance to redeem is 5pm the day before the sheriff's sale.
Assessment is by constitutional subclass, not county: 11.5% residential, 12% vacant lots and not-for-profit, 25% commercial and industrial, 30% all other urban and rural, 33% public utility. Agricultural land is assessed on agricultural income value rather than market value.
Proceeds above the judgment go to the former owner, so a premium is not recoverable equity — Kansas already did what Tyler v. Hennepin County later required of other states.
quietTitle costs here are a placeholder and have not been reviewed by the operator. Do not rely on a computed Kansas max bid until they are set.

Jefferson County rulesstate defaults

Sale type: Tax Deed
Redemption period: None once judicial foreclosure completes (roughly 3+ years of delinquency)
Investor return: N/A — outright deed transfer
Governing statute: Kansas Statutes Ch. 79, Art. 23
Population: 18,332 residents

Notes

Judicial in-rem foreclosure process run by the county; sheriff's sale for the deed.

Inherited from Kansas rather than researched for Jefferson: type, redemption, returns, statute, notes.

Parcels — ranked by assessed value over opening bid

Show 9 land-only parcel(s)

Parcel	Address	Opening bid	Assessed	Spread	Status
203-08-0-10-05-008.00-0	209 Granite St · Mc Louth	—	$26,963	—	pending
173-07-0-30-01-016.00-0	414 E Main St · Meriden	—	$21,014	—	pending
076-24-0-10-24-001.00-0	1000 K16 Hwy · Valley Falls	—	$13,465	—	pending
029-30-0-10-28-004.00-0

Spread is not profit.It compares the opening bid to the county's assessed value, which is not market value — Kansas Constitution art. 11, § 1: real property is assessed uniformly by subclass — residential including multi-family at 11.5%, vacant lots 12%, not-for-profit 12%, commercial and industrial 25%, land devoted to agricultural use 30% of agricultural income value, public utility 33%, and all other urban and rural real property 30%. This entry uses the 11.5% residential rate. Open a parcel to run the full max-bid analysis, which accounts for the assessment ratio, surviving liens, quiet title, and holding costs.