Sinkhole risk in Attala 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%

The next step for one property

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

Across 735 square miles, under one square mile of Attala County maps onto soluble rock. With about 17,222 residents (23 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 276 map points about 1.6 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 Attala County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Oktibbeha County, MS, about 47 miles northeast. 4 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Leake County, MS 23 mi south · 9% at surface
Choctaw County, MS 26 mi northeast · 0% at surface
Montgomery County, MS 28 mi north · 0% at surface
Holmes County, MS 29 mi west · 0% at surface
Carroll County, MS 31 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Winston County, MS 32 mi east · 18% at surface

Against the rest of Mississippi

Attala County ranks 37 of 82 in Mississippi for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.