Sinkhole risk in Cheshire County, NH: No soluble rock mapped
No soluble rock mapped
No soluble bedrock mapped.
- On soluble rock
- under 1%
- At or near the surface
- 0%
- Buried under cover
- under 1%
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.
That works out to roughly 5 of Cheshire County's 707 square miles on soluble rock. With about 78,078 residents (110 per square mile), homes are spread across towns and farmland, and a mapped unit may or may not reach the developed parts. The figures come from 287 map points about 1.6 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.
Read next: how these percentages are measured, and the warning signs that apply anywhere.
Counties around Cheshire County
The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Union County, PA, about 282 miles southwest. 2 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band; the ground changes quickly around here.
- Windham County, VT 24 mi west · 0% at surface
- Hillsborough County, NH 27 mi east · 0% at surface
- Franklin County, MA 29 mi southwest · 0% at surface
- Sullivan County, NH 30 mi north · 0% at surface
- Merrimack County, NH 39 mi northeast · 0% at surface
- Bennington County, VT 44 mi west · 0% at surface
What Cheshire County is built on
The largest mapped soluble unit here is the Fitch Formation (Upper Silurian; Pridolian and Ludlovian) (marble), Upper Silurian - (Pridolian and Ludlovian) in age, covering about under 1% of the county.
Against the rest of New Hampshire
Cheshire County ranks 3 of 10 in New Hampshire for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.
- Belknap County 0%
- Carroll County 0%
- Coos County 0%
- Grafton County 0%
- Hillsborough County 0%