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Stark County at a glance
- State
- Ohio
- County seat
- Canton
- Population
- 374,853
- Area
- 581 sq mi
- Founded
- 1808
- Cities and towns
- 24
Stark County offices and records
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Stark County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement services in the unincorporated areas of Stark County.
Police Departments. Stark County is served by several law enforcement agencies, including Stark County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments such as the Canton Police Department, Massillon Police Department, and Alliance Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Stark County Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 4500 Atlantic Boulevard NE, Canton, OH 44705, provides law enforcement services to unincorporated areas and operates Stark County detention facility. Stark County Jail maintains an online inmate roster accessible through the Sheriff's website, allowing the public to search for current inmates by name, booking number, or date.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Stark County are maintained by Stark County Sheriff's Office and local police departments.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Stark County are taken and retained by Stark County Sheriff's Office during the booking process.
Stark County also operates Canton Municipal Court, which handles misdemeanor criminal cases, traffic violations, and civil disputes up to $15,000, with offices at 218 Cleveland Avenue SW, Canton, OH 44702 (330-438-0600). The Auditor's online database allows free searches of property ownership, tax valuations, sales history, property characteristics, and aerial imagery without registration. Stark County Treasurer's Office at 110 Central Plaza South, Suite 220, Canton, OH 44702 (330-451-7316) handles property tax collections and maintains records of tax payments, delinquencies, and tax certificate sales. Stark County Recorder's Office, located at 110 Central Plaza South, Suite 130, Canton, OH 44702 (330-451-7330), maintains full land and property records including warranty deeds, quit claim deeds, mortgage documents, federal and state tax liens, mechanic's liens, easements, rights-of-way, military discharge records (DD-214s), and subdivision plat maps. Property tax records and assessment information are maintained by Stark County Auditor's Office at 110 Central Plaza South, Suite 510, Canton, OH 44702 (330-451-7333), which operates a full Geographic Information System (GIS) and property search portal at www.starkcountyauditor.org. 222 Market Avenue North, Canton, OH 44702 • Phone: (330-451-7368 Zoning information and compliance are handled by individual municipal planning departments in incorporated areas and by Stark County Regional Planning Commission (330-451-7393) for unincorporated areas. Stark County Court of Common Pleas is the general trial court with jurisdiction over felony criminal cases, civil matters exceeding $15,000, domestic relations, juvenile cases, and probate matters. Located at 110 Central Plaza South, Canton, OH 44702, the Court of Common Pleas operates multiple divisions including General Division (330-451-7790), Domestic Relations Division (330-451-7554). Stark County Board of Elections, located at 3515 Regent Avenue NE, Canton, OH 44705 (330-451-8683), administers all federal, state, and local elections within Stark County and maintains voter registration records, candidate filings, and precinct-level election results. The Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce, located at 222 Market Avenue North, Canton, OH 44702 (330-456-7253), operates www.cantonchamber.org and provides business resources, networking opportunities, and economic data for the greater Stark County region. Birth certificates for people born in Stark County are available through Stark County General Health District Vital Statistics Office located at 7235 Whipple Avenue NW, North Canton, OH 44720 (330-493-9904), which is the local vital records registrar. Alliance Municipal Court at 470 East Market Street, Alliance, OH 44601 (330-829-2269) and Massillon Municipal Court at 121 Lincoln Way East, Massillon, OH 44646 (330-830-1720) serve their respective jurisdictions within Stark County.
Abandoned mine records
Old mine workings in Stark County
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
What is on record in Stark County
- Old mine sites
- 23
- Sites with no status in the records
- 4
- Still producing
- 21
- Main minerals
- construction sand and gravel; Clay; Limestone, General
- Holes drawn on the old survey maps
- 68
- Shafts and tunnels
- 6
- What they are
- gravel pit, sand and gravel pit, mine shaft, adit
- Maps surveyed
- 1958 to 1971
- Records behind them
- 125 records for 116 sites, the rest are the same working written down more than once
- Sources
- USGS mineral file and USGS topographic mine features
Is an old working under a property here?
The mine records hold 48 named mine sites inside the county, 23 of them worked out or abandoned; the old survey maps add 68 holes drawn inside the county, 6 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Clay; Limestone, General.
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.
Ohio mine map and abandoned mine records
- ODNR Ohio Mines Locator (Mines of Ohio)Locations and permit information for thousands of mapped surface and underground coal and mineral mines, found by entering a street address or clicking mining features, with statewide shapefile download; the viewer itself opens at https://gis.ohiodnr.gov/MapViewer/?config=OhioMines.
- ODNR Division of Mineral Resources Management, Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation ProgramsThe state and federal AML programs that investigate and fix hazards from pre law coal mining; questions and concerns to minerals@dnr.ohio.gov.
- ODNR Map Viewer, Mines of Ohio layers (Divisions of Geological Survey and Mineral Resources Management)The map application behind the Mines Locator with the abandoned underground mine polygons digitized from archival mine maps, organized by county, with a Data tab listing the shapefiles.
- ODNR Mine Subsidence Insurance (Ohio Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund)The 1985 state fund administered by the Mine Subsidence Insurance Governing Board through the Ohio Mine Subsidence Insurance Underwriting Association: in 26 mandatory counties the cover is added to every homeowner policy for $1 a year, in 11 optional counties it is $5 a year by choice, and claims go to the homeowner agent or insurer.
Named workings recorded in Stark County (53 shown, 63 unnamed on the map)
- Fox MineMine Shaft | Navarre map, 1961
- MineAdit | Robertsville map, 1960
- MineAdit | Robertsville map, 1960
- MineAdit | Robertsville map, 1960
- Slag DumpSlag Pile | Massillon map, 1961
- Alliance Brick Corp. Pit Number 2Clay | Past Producer | 2 records for this one site
- D & M Coal Clay PitClay | Producer | Surface
- D and M Clay and Shale PitClay | Past Producer
- J & R PitClay | Producer | Surface
- Motts and Dehoff PitClay | Past Producer
- Motts and Dehoff PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- Pleasant Valley Drive Clay PitClay | Past Producer
- Romaay PitsClay | Past Producer
- Romany Plant & PitsClay | Plant | Surface
- Stark Ceramics, Incorporated PitClay | Past Producer
- Stark County MinesClay | Producer | Surface
- Stark PitClay | Producer | Surface
- Suzie Strip MineClay | Past Producer
- Suzie Strip Mine Clay and Shale PitClay | Past Producer | Surface
- D and M PitClay, Coal | Past Producer | Surface
- Pleasant Valley Drive Clay PitClay, Coal | Past Producer | Surface
- Stark PitClay, Coal | Past Producer | Surface
- Ohio Ferro-Alloys/ Canton, OhioIron | Producer | A processing plant, not a working
- Republic Steel/ Massillon, OhioIron | Producer | A processing plant, not a working
- East Ohio Limestone Co. QuarryLimestone, General | Past Producer
- Aj Diana Sons Inc Pit & MillSand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | Surface
- Allied Corp Plant No 3 & PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- American Sand & Gravel Plant #2 PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Bailey & Weidner Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | 2 records for this one site
- Beldon Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Central Allied Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Columbus Road PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer
- Columbus Road PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Diana Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer
- Diano Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Greensburg Sand & Gravel MineSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Hartville Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | Surface
- Heiser Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Massillon PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Massillon PlantSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer
- Navarre PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer
- Navarre Pit Mass. Washed GravelSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Northern Ohio PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Oster Sand & Gravel Missilon PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Ries Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | 2 records for this one site
- Snee PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Stark PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Stone Products PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface
- Stone Products Pit & MillSand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | Surface
- Uniontown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | 2 records for this one site
- East Ohio QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Sme QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Surface
- Canton Ohio Sulfur PlantSulfur | Producer | A processing plant, not a working
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.
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.
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Stark County public-records FAQs
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Where can I find mugshots or booking photos in Stark County, Ohio?
Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Stark County Sheriff or a city police department in Stark County. Ask that agency for its record. Under Ohio Revised Code 2927.22 no one who publishes criminal record information, booking photographs included, may ask for or accept a fee to remove, correct or stop publishing it; a violation is a first degree misdemeanor.
How do I get a criminal background check in Stark County, Ohio?
The Ohio criminal history record comes from the Ohio Attorney General, Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI). Checks are fingerprint based: submit fingerprints electronically through a WebCheck location, or mail the BCI Civilian Background Check card with payment to P.O. Box 365, London, Ohio 43140. Fee: $22.00 for a BCI check.
How can I look up sex offenders in Stark County, Ohio?
Search the Ohio Attorney General Electronic Sex Offender Registration and Notification (eSORN), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
How do I register to vote in Stark County, Ohio?
Register with the county board of elections or through the Ohio Secretary of State. You can also register online with the state online registration. Registration forms must be received or postmarked by the 30th day before the election.
How do I look up property records in Stark County, Ohio?
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Stark County are kept by the Stark County recorder. Property values are set by the county auditor, and tax bills come from the county treasurer. Source: official state page.
How do I get a birth or death certificate in Stark County, Ohio?
Certified birth and death certificates for Ohio come from the Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. More than 100 local vital statistics offices at local health departments in Ohio offer in person or other same day certified copies of Ohio vital records. Online through the Department of Health order portal with a credit card, by mail with check or money order to PO Box 15098, Columbus, Ohio 43215-0098, or in person at a local vital statistics office; the state office at 4200 Surface Road, Columbus serves same day birth record requests Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fee: $21.50 for each certified birth or death record.
How do I find business license records in Stark County, Ohio?
Business entity filings are searched with the Ohio Secretary of State, Business Services Division. Ohio.gov says some licenses and permits come from the state and others come from your city or county.
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