Birth Certificates 

• The office only issues certificates for births that occurred in Ohio. 
• For births outside the State of Ohio, please contact the state in which the event occurred.
• For home births, please contact Carmalee Hand-Cannane, Deputy Registrar, at vitals@starkhealth.org or 330.451.1465.

New Birth Certificates 

• Certificates for new births typically takes up to 2 weeks to become available. While Stark County Health Department strives to provide this service as quickly as possible, the information must first be received from the birthing hospital (or center) and uploaded into State of Ohio records system.
• The Office of Vital Statistics processes orders within 2 business days once the information is available.

Death Certificates 

• The Stark County Health Department (SCHD) has death records dating from 1908 to the present year, for persons who were pronounced dead within the SCHD health jurisdiction (outside the city limits of Alliance, Canton, or Massillon).

  •  Use this lookup app to determine the appropriate health jurisdiction from which to request a death record/certificate.

  • https://starkcohealthoh.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/lookup/index.html?appid=144e11efd2094543966d27eb062de018&locale=en-US

  •  Enter the address of where the person was pronounced dead in the search bar above and and select the correct address from the list of suggestions. The map will zoom to the address and pop-up text will provide details on the health jurisdiction and next steps for your request. 

    Select "Clear search location" at the top of the map to start another search.

• The address of the death must fall within the County limits of Stark, however, any death inside the city limit of Canton City, Alliance City and Massillon City will need to be requested from those city health departments.
• For Death records in Stark County prior to 1908, contact the Ohio History Connection at www.ohiohistory.org, 800-686-6124, 614-297-2300 or the Stark County District Library at www.starklibrary.org 330-458-2765.
• For deaths outside the State of Ohio, please contact the state in which the event occurred. 
• For deaths occurring outside of the County of Stark, but within Ohio, contact the county's office of vital statistics where the death occurred or the Ohio Department of Health.  
• The year of death is mandatory to obtain a Death Certificate.  If you do not know the exact date please enter (99/99/2000).

Attention Applicants

• If you are applying for your own Birth Certificate and you have changed your name since birth, (Marriage, Legal Name Change, Adoption) please enter the reason for your name change in the 'Special Instructions' field on Step 4 of the application.