Sinkhole risk in Fayette County, TX: 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 950 square miles, under one square mile of Fayette County maps onto soluble rock. With about 25,488 residents (27 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 597 map points about 1.3 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 Fayette County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Runnels County, TX, about 227 miles northwest. 5 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Bastrop County, TX 28 mi northwest · 4% at surface
Lee County, TX 31 mi north · 0% at surface
Colorado County, TX 31 mi southeast · 0% at surface
Lavaca County, TX 34 mi south · 0% at surface
Washington County, TX 38 mi northeast · 0% at surface
Austin County, TX 39 mi east · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Texas

Fayette County ranks 174 of 254 in Texas for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.