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Stark County

Septic services in North Canton, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of North Canton

Listed by where the business is, not by who it says it serves. Every operator here was on the ODH 2026 sewage treatment system bond lists on the date its record shows, and the address it is placed by comes from that same list, so this is a checkable claim rather than a service-area promise. An Ohio bond covers work in any health district in the state, though each district registers its contractors separately, so operators further out can work here too; these are simply the ones closest to you.

Atomic Sewer, LLC

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Lehman Drain

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Septic Surgeons Inc.

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Showing the 30 nearest of 49 operators based within 12 miles. The rest are on the county page.

Soil and septic suitability around North Canton

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of North Canton — 32,047 acres across 148 soil map units — it rates 81.2% of the land very limited for that use and 0% somewhat limited, and almost none with no limitation at all.

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around North Canton the leading one is seepage, bottom layer on 44.1% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 41.4%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Seepage, bottom layer44.1%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Depth to saturated zone41.4%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Filtering capacity32.2%The soil drains so fast it would not filter the effluent
Slow water movement22%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to cemented pan10.3%A cemented pan sits too close to the surface

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 81.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around North Canton. Chili alone accounts for 31.6% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Chili31.6% Well drained 0 to 50% None in profile Very limited
Canfield10.3% Moderately well drained 0 to 18% None in profile Very limited
Wooster7.5% Well drained 2 to 50% None in profile Very limited
Wheeling6.4% Well drained 0 to 18% None in profile Very limited
Ravenna3.6% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited

“None in profile” means SSURGO records no bedrock or other restrictive layer within the depth it describes, not that none exists.

Area of interest: a 4-mile radius around the USGS Geographic Names centre point for North Canton (GNIS 2395252, 40.8741, -81.3971), chosen because five of this state's communities are unincorporated and have no boundary to use, and because the lots that need a septic permit are in the ring around a town rather than inside it. Soil from USDA-NRCS Soil Data Access, SSURGO interpretation “ENG - Septic Tank Absorption Fields”, area-weighted by mapped acreage and by each component's share of its map unit. Survey areas: Stark County, Ohio (2025-09-08), Summit County, Ohio (2025-09-08). Retrieved 2026-09-18.

This is a survey, not an evaluation of your lot. The permit decision rests on the site evaluation ODH carries out for the specific parcel.

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Permitting in Stark County

In Stark County a septic (sewage treatment system) permit is issued by the local board of health, not by the state. The Ohio Department of Health writes the rules; the health district applies them and registers the contractors who work in it. See the Stark County detail →