Ohio, Stark County
Where Massillon's records are kept. Massillon has its own city government, police department, municipal court and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Massillon's own offices, along with State of Ohio offices; the Stark County offices are on our Stark County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
Massillon's official city website lists the Municipal Government Center at 1 James Duncan Plaza and gathers the payment center, forms, departments, courts, income tax, housing and the mayor and administration.
Open official site City of MassillonPolice & jail
The Massillon Police Department, street level of the Municipal Government Center at 2 James Duncan Plaza, S.E., Suite 1, with links to its records office and to public roadway crash reports.
Open official site Massillon Police DepartmentPolice & jail
The Massillon Police Records Office at 2 James Duncan Plaza, S.E., Suite 1, open weekdays 8:30AM to 4:30PM, offers an accident records search and is staffed by two records specialists.
Open official site Massillon Police Records OfficeMunicipal court
Massillon Municipal Court serves Massillon and the surrounding townships and villages. Its city page lists the judges, clerk of court and magistrate, with online court forms, contact information and court links.
Open official site Massillon Municipal CourtCity records
The Massillon Building Department at One James Duncan Plaza, open weekdays 8:30am to 4:30pm, serves residents, design professionals, building owners, landlords and tenants on building matters.
Open official site Massillon Building DepartmentPolice & jail
FBI wanted posters, from the Ten Most Wanted list to fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, bank robbers and seeking information cases; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Most WantedPolice & jail
The Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation is Ohio's clearinghouse for missing person data: it keeps databases of missing children and adults, issues alerts and takes tips. Families should call local police first.
Open official site Ohio Attorney General Missing PersonsVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
The Ohio History Connection research library in Columbus offers genealogy guides, its catalog and Ohio death certificates from 1908 to 1970; since July 2026 it opens Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Open official site Ohio History Connection Archives and LibraryCounty court
Besides PACER and e-filing links, the court sells hearing audio, $32 on CD or $2.40 per MP3 file through PACER, and accepts proofs of claim online without a login.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of OhioCounty court
The Supreme Court of Ohio lists each county's common pleas, municipal and county courts, with links to every court's own website and local rules.
Open official site Supreme Court of Ohio Courts by CountyEverything else, organized
14 more Massillon sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Massillon, a place of 32,146 people, is in Stark County, whose county seat is Canton. Court and property records sit with Stark County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Ohio. Massillon's own offices are in the cards above, and our Stark County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 3 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 2 sites producing when the record was made, 1 processing plant, which is not a working; the old survey maps add 7 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels.
A point in either file is a location, not a property line: the sheet shows the opening on the surface, not the rooms under it. The record that shows what runs under a parcel is the mine map. The OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds scanned underground mine maps and answers requests for a named mine or an area. Coverage is automatic in the 26 mandatory counties (Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mahoning, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Scioto, Stark, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Vinton, Washington) and optional in 11 more.
Rows taken off the old survey maps open the USGS record of what sits at that spot, because no single feature on those maps has a page of its own. Rows from the mine records open their own USGS page.
Massillon sits over the Appalachian Region coal field and the coal there is medium and high volatile bituminous, worked underground in many places. The two federal files record a shaft, an adit or a deposit where one was drawn on a survey sheet or catalogued as a site; neither file carries the outline of the workings, so the counts above are not the measure of what was mined under this town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by ODNR Ohio Mines Locator (Mines of Ohio) and linked below.
Ohio abandoned mine maps ranks every county and town in the state by the workings recorded inside it, names the office that holds the mine maps, and says what to do if the ground moves.
Disclaimer: The mine information here is for general information only. Old mine records can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and finding nothing here does not mean there is nothing there. Check with the mine map office named here before you rely on it, and have a qualified engineer look at any ground you are worried about. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 28 investigations with a Massillon address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $104,571 in back wages agreed for 252 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. Goss Concrete, Inc. | 2 | $10,954 | 12 |
| Advanced Industrial Roofing, Inc. | 1 | $9,267 | 21 |
| Massillon Construction & Supply, Inc | 2 | $6,810 | 13 |
| Kendel Welding & Fabrication, Inc. | 1 | $5,556 | 7 |
| Cold Headed Fasteners, Inc. | 1 | $5,418 | 3 |
| MANCAN, Inc. | 2 | $3,404 | 8 |
| Amherst Alliance, LLC | 1 | $2,721 | 22 |
| J Lally Inc. | 1 | $2,656 | 12 |
| Peoples Cartage, Inc. | 1 | $1,494 | 1 |
| PFS & Sons, LLC | 1 | $1,075 | 8 |
| Emmanuel Christian Church | 1 | $755 | 10 |
| Kids Castle Child Care LLC | 1 | $339 | 1 |
| NFM Welding Engineers, Inc. | 1 | $206 | 1 |
| Family Medicine Health & Wellness Center, Inc | 1 | $55 | 2 |
| Kendall House, Inc. | 7 | $0 | 0 |
| J&J Ventures, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Sekulic Lawn & Landscape, LLC. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Rockne's Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Fairpoint Enterprise, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Bella Roofing | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Massillon, by back wages agreed; 4 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Ohio wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Ohio is run by the Ohio Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Massillon.
Court records for Massillon are kept by the clerk of the court that heard the case. See Massillon Municipal Court (https://massillonohio.gov/about-massillon/massillon-municipal-court/) to search cases and request copies.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Ohio come from the state vital records office, Ohio Office of Vital Statistics. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
Businesses that operate in Massillon register with the Ohio Secretary of State, which runs the state business entity search. A local business license, where Massillon requires one, comes from the town or Stark County.
Same county
Use the city page when a record was created by a municipal police department or city office; use the county page for courts, deeds, vital records and jail custody.