Sinkhole risk in LaSalle Parish, LA: 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%

What this means before you buy

No soluble bedrock is mapped here, so natural sinkholes are unlikely. Collapses from broken pipes or old mines are a separate risk.

Across 625 square miles, under one square mile of LaSalle Parish maps onto soluble rock. With about 14,702 residents (24 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 288 map points about 1.5 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 LaSalle Parish

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Oktibbeha County, MS, about 226 miles northeast. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Catahoula Parish, LA 19 mi east · 0% at surface
Grant Parish, LA 24 mi west · 0% at surface
Caldwell Parish, LA 29 mi north · 0% at surface
Winn Parish, LA 33 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Concordia Parish, LA 35 mi southeast · 0% at surface
Rapides Parish, LA 40 mi southwest · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Louisiana

LaSalle Parish ranks 30 of 64 in Louisiana for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.