Sinkhole risk in Lafayette County, AR: 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 529 square miles, under one square mile of Lafayette County maps onto soluble rock. With about 6,015 residents (11 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 242 map points about 1.5 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 Lafayette County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Adair County, OK, about 193 miles north. 4 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Miller County, AR 17 mi west · 0% at surface
Columbia County, AR 22 mi east · 0% at surface
Nevada County, AR 34 mi northeast · 7% at surface
Hempstead County, AR 34 mi north · 43% at surface
Bossier Parish, LA 37 mi south · 0% at surface
Webster Parish, LA 38 mi southeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Arkansas

Lafayette County ranks 55 of 75 in Arkansas for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.