Sinkhole risk in Cherry County, NE: 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 5,960 square miles, under one square mile of Cherry County maps onto soluble rock. With about 5,558 residents (1 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 396 map points about 3.9 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 Cherry County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Dawes County, NE, about 107 miles west. 4 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Hooker County, NE 45 mi south · 0% at surface
Todd County, SD 47 mi north · 0% at surface
Bennett County, SD 53 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Thomas County, NE 56 mi southeast · 0% at surface
Grant County, NE 58 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Brown County, NE 59 mi east · under 1% at surface

Against the rest of Nebraska

Cherry County ranks 46 of 93 in Nebraska for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.