Sinkhole risk in Barbour County, WV: 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 Barbour County

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

Across 341 square miles, under one square mile of Barbour County maps onto soluble rock. With about 15,369 residents (45 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 257 map points about 1.2 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 Barbour County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Harrisonburg city, VA, about 78 miles southeast. 2 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band; the ground changes quickly around here.

Taylor County, WV 14 mi north · 0% at surface
Upshur County, WV 21 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Harrison County, WV 23 mi northwest · 7% at surface
Tucker County, WV 24 mi east · 8% at surface
Randolph County, WV 26 mi south · 17% at surface
Marion County, WV 29 mi northwest · 15% at surface

Against the rest of West Virginia

Barbour County ranks 27 of 55 in West Virginia for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.