Sinkhole risk in Bienville Parish, LA: 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 this means before you buy

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

Across 811 square miles, under one square mile of Bienville Parish maps onto soluble rock. With about 12,412 residents (15 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 274 map points about 1.7 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 Bienville Parish

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Oktibbeha County, MS, about 253 miles east. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Red River Parish, LA 24 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Jackson Parish, LA 28 mi east · 0% at surface
Lincoln Parish, LA 29 mi northeast · 0% at surface
Webster Parish, LA 32 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Claiborne Parish, LA 34 mi north · 0% at surface
Winn Parish, LA 36 mi southeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Louisiana

Bienville Parish ranks 7 of 64 in Louisiana for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.