Sinkhole risk in Amite County, MS: No soluble rock mapped

No soluble rock mapped

No soluble bedrock mapped.

On soluble rock: 0%
At or near the surface: 0%
Buried under cover: 0%

What to do about a house in Amite County

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

Across 730 square miles, under one square mile of Amite County maps onto soluble rock. With about 12,451 residents (17 per square mile), much of the land is open, and the mapped rock may sit far from where people actually live. The figures come from 372 map points about 1.4 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Two things to read before deciding: why gypsum and salt move faster than limestone, and how these percentages are measured.

Counties around Amite County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Noxubee County, MS, about 185 miles northeast. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Franklin County, MS 20 mi north · 0% at surface
Pike County, MS 24 mi east · 0% at surface
St. Helena Parish, LA 27 mi south · 0% at surface
East Feliciana Parish, LA 29 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Lincoln County, MS 31 mi northeast · 0% at surface
Wilkinson County, MS 31 mi west · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Mississippi

Amite County ranks 36 of 82 in Mississippi for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.