Sinkhole risk in Acadia Parish, LA: No soluble rock mapped

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No soluble bedrock is mapped here, so natural sinkholes are unlikely. Collapses from broken pipes or old mines are a separate risk.

Across 655 square miles, under one square mile of Acadia Parish maps onto soluble rock. With about 56,604 residents (86 per square mile), homes are spread across towns and farmland, and a mapped unit may or may not reach the developed parts. The figures come from 301 map points about 1.5 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Worth reading for this county: why gypsum and salt move faster than limestone, and how these percentages are measured.

Counties around Acadia Parish

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Noxubee County, MS, about 298 miles northeast. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

• Lafayette Parish, LA 22 mi east · 0% at surface
• Jefferson Davis Parish, LA 24 mi west · 0% at surface
• Evangeline Parish, LA 30 mi north · 0% at surface
• St. Landry Parish, LA 32 mi northeast · 0% at surface
• Vermilion Parish, LA 34 mi south · 0% at surface
• Allen Parish, LA 35 mi northwest · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Louisiana

Acadia Parish ranks 1 of 64 in Louisiana for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.

• Allen Parish 0%
• Ascension Parish 0%
• Assumption Parish 0%
• Avoyelles Parish 0%
• Beauregard Parish 0%