SinkholeOdds

Sinkhole risk in Lake County, OH: 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 229 square miles, under one square mile of Lake County maps onto soluble rock. With about 232,360 residents (1,013 per square mile), most of the county is built up, so a mapped unit is likely to sit under somebody's street. The figures come from 493 map points about 0.7 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 Lake County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Monroe County, MI, about 118 miles west. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Against the rest of Ohio

Lake County ranks 45 of 88 in Ohio for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.