Sinkhole risk in Fayette County, IL: 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 Fayette County

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

Across 716 square miles, under one square mile of Fayette County maps onto soluble rock. With about 21,157 residents (30 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 290 map points about 1.6 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Counties around Fayette County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is St. Louis County, MO, about 81 miles west. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Effingham County, IL 23 mi east · 0% at surface
Bond County, IL 24 mi west · 0% at surface
Marion County, IL 25 mi south · 0% at surface
Shelby County, IL 29 mi northeast · 0% at surface
Montgomery County, IL 29 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Clay County, IL 34 mi southeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Illinois

Fayette County ranks 48 of 102 in Illinois for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.