Sinkhole risk in Lauderdale County, MS: 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 to do about a house in Lauderdale County
No soluble bedrock is mapped here, so natural sinkholes are unlikely. Collapses from broken pipes or old mines are a separate risk.
Across 704 square miles, under one square mile of Lauderdale County maps onto soluble rock. With about 70,588 residents (100 per square mile), homes are spread across towns and farmland, and a mapped unit may or may not reach the developed parts. The figures come from 374 map points about 1.4 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 Lauderdale County
The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Noxubee County, MS, about 49 miles north. 1 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band; the ground changes quickly around here.
- Kemper County, MS 24 mi north · 36% at surface
- Clarke County, MS 25 mi south · 14% at surface
- Newton County, MS 27 mi west · 21% at surface
- Sumter County, AL 30 mi northeast · 46% at surface
- Neshoba County, MS 36 mi northwest · 0% at surface
- Choctaw County, AL 37 mi southeast · 5% at surface
Against the rest of Mississippi
Lauderdale County ranks 60 of 82 in Mississippi for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.
- Clay County 94%
- Oktibbeha County 94%
- Chickasaw County 93%
- Noxubee County 88%
- Pontotoc County 82%