Stark County septic records: searching the Health Department's files

Start on the Health Department's septic and well records page. Read the disclaimer there and agree to it, and the page takes you to the search. The Health Department doesn't guarantee the online records are accurate.¹

Its tips for searching:¹

• Search by the house number alone. Spellings, street suffixes and prefixes haven't been used the same way over the last 50 years, so the number on its own can work better. The search lists every property with that number, and you pick yours.
• Try old addresses. Addresses sometimes change. If you know a property's earlier house numbers, search those too.
• Print or email a record by right-clicking the address in the list on the left of the screen.

Only permit records are online. To ask for other records, or to report a mistake in one, call the clerks at 330-493-9904.¹

Call the office, and staff will check whether a record exists in another database. Well and septic records usually don't go back before the early 1960s.¹

The Health Department is at 7235 Whipple Ave NW, Suite B, North Canton, Ohio 44720. Its environmental service area is open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m..¹

The Health Department's sewage page lists a Sewage GIS map under its online records. The same page covers the program's rules, permits, required servicing, property transfer inspections and contractor registration, and has its current fee schedule.²

Three cities in the county have health departments of their own: Canton City Public Health, the Massillon City Health Department and the Alliance City Health Department. For some services, such as WIC, the county Health Department sends people who live inside those cities to their city's department.³ Its pages don't say which department holds septic records inside those cities, so if the property is in one of them and the county search finds nothing, ask the county clerks at 330-493-9904 where to look.