Canton, GA

Water Damage in Canton, GA: Mill Streets and New Builds

Canton's own housing study puts nearly half of the city's homes in the 2000s, so a wet wall here is often newer framing than the old mill streets suggest. Before you pick a page, find out whether the address is inside the city limits, since that decides which water office answers. A leak that started upstairs sits on the ceiling and wall leaks page. When the room is safe, call (678) 658-3988.

Call (678) 658-3988

Canton in seven figures

32,973residents in the 2020 CensusCensus Bureau QuickFacts
40,778July 2025 population estimateCensus Bureau QuickFacts, vintage 2025
12,398households, 2020-2024Census Bureau QuickFacts
55.6%of homes owner-occupied, 2020-2024Census Bureau QuickFacts
$1,680median gross rent, 2020-2024Census Bureau QuickFacts
47.8%of homes built 2000-2009Canton Housing Update, 2022, figure 4
55.58 inrain in a year, adding the twelve monthly normalsNOAA 1991-2020, Canton station

What to know about the address before you call

Say this first

Start with the street address, then check whether the City of Canton or the Cherokee County Water and Sewerage Authority sends the water bill. Add the wet room, the time water first showed and anything you have already done, such as closing a valve. In a rented home, the owner or property manager hears about it first; the line serves owners and landlords.

What the Canton gauge says about wet months

The gauge sits at 34.2072 north, 84.5039 west, at 345.9 feet. Its twelve monthly rain normals add up to 55.58 inches, with March and December each at 5.42 and October at 3.49. A day with an inch of rain or more arrives 16.2 times a year on average. In September 2009 the National Weather Service table has Canton's river gauge past its 16-foot flood stage for about 39 hours, and in January 2023 flooding closed the trail east of Etowah River Park. Your own street may behave differently from a gauge in town.

Offices that answer here

City Hall is at 110 Academy St, phone (770) 704-1500, open weekdays from 8 in the morning until 5 in the evening, according to the Georgia Municipal Association. The building was Canton High School, built in 1924, before the city moved in during 2018. Canton's building page lists inspection requests at 770-704-1551 and an in-person address of 151 Elizabeth Street; it gives no hours and no list of work that needs a permit, and its web address looks older than the move, so confirm with City Hall.

Code Compliance, 770-704-1554, handles exterior and property maintenance, and its page says nothing about standing water. Water and Sewer answers at 770-704-1502 on weekdays from 8 to 5, with an after-hours Operations line, 770-479-2392. Outside the city limits, the Cherokee County Development Service Center answers at (770) 721-7810. The offices page sets the desks side by side.

Canton street of brick-and-stone homes with three-car garages

The houses in this town

Thomas P. Miller and Associates wrote Canton's housing update for the city on 1 December 2022. Its figure 4 puts 47.8 percent of homes in the 2000 to 2009 group, 15.9 percent in 2010 or later, and 11.4 percent before 1980. It counts 65.6 percent of homes as detached single-family. Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 put 55.6 percent of homes in owner hands, so about 44 of every 100 are rented, with a median gross rent of $1,680. In a city with that many renters, the first call from a rented unit is to whoever owns or manages it.

A cotton mill, a 1924 schoolhouse and a river park

The county's 2023 plan says the Canton Cotton Mill was established in 1899 by R.T. Jones. City Hall now fills the 1924 school building on Academy Street, and the old City Hall at 151 Elizabeth Street, once a Baptist church, became the Public Safety and Municipal Court Building, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in 2018. Etowah River Park hosts the River Rock Concert Series on third Saturdays from May to August, per the city's home page. FOX 5 reported that January 2023 flooding closed the trail east of that park.

Places served

Call (678) 658-3988

Side notes

Checked 1 Nov 2026