Sinkhole risk in Haywood County, TN: 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 533 square miles, under one square mile of Haywood County maps onto soluble rock. With about 17,097 residents (32 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 305 map points about 1.3 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 Haywood County
The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Tippah County, MS, about 60 miles south. 5 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.
- Crockett County, TN 18 mi northeast · 0% at surface
- Lauderdale County, TN 23 mi northwest · 0% at surface
- Madison County, TN 25 mi east · 0% at surface
- Tipton County, TN 27 mi west · 0% at surface
- Fayette County, TN 28 mi south · 0% at surface
- Hardeman County, TN 30 mi southeast · 5% at surface
Against the rest of Tennessee
Haywood County ranks 86 of 95 in Tennessee for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.
- Jefferson County 100%
- Rutherford County 100%
- Loudon County 99%
- Hamblen County 99%
- Knox County 95%