Sinkhole risk in Deuel 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%

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 440 square miles, under one square mile of Deuel County maps onto soluble rock. With about 1,892 residents (4 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 374 map points about 1.1 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 Deuel County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Dawes County, NE, about 118 miles north. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Sedgwick County, CO 17 mi south · 0% at surface
Phillips County, CO 36 mi south · 0% at surface
Cheyenne County, NE 36 mi west · 0% at surface
Garden County, NE 36 mi north · 0% at surface
Keith County, NE 36 mi east · 0% at surface
Perkins County, NE 41 mi southeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Nebraska

Deuel County ranks 53 of 93 in Nebraska for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.