Sinkhole risk in Lac qui Parle County, MN: 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 765 square miles, under one square mile of Lac qui Parle County maps onto soluble rock. With about 6,636 residents (9 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 281 map points about 1.6 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Worth reading for this county: how these percentages are measured, and the warning signs that apply anywhere.

Counties around Lac qui Parle County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Knox County, NE, about 184 miles southwest. 4 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Yellow Medicine County, MN 25 mi southeast · 0% at surface
Chippewa County, MN 30 mi east · 0% at surface
Deuel County, SD 30 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Swift County, MN 30 mi northeast · 0% at surface
Big Stone County, MN 31 mi north · 0% at surface
Grant County, SD 31 mi northwest · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Minnesota

Lac qui Parle County ranks 41 of 87 in Minnesota for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.