Sinkhole risk in Jim Hogg 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 1,136 square miles, under one square mile of Jim Hogg County maps onto soluble rock. With about 4,583 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 349 map points about 1.8 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 Jim Hogg County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Runnels County, TX, about 339 miles north. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Zapata County, TX 27 mi west · 0% at surface
Brooks County, TX 33 mi east · 0% at surface
Starr County, TX 36 mi south · 0% at surface
Duval County, TX 46 mi north · 0% at surface
Hidalgo County, TX 57 mi southeast · 0% at surface
Webb County, TX 61 mi northwest · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Texas

Jim Hogg County ranks 195 of 254 in Texas for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.