Sinkhole risk in Leflore 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%

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 594 square miles, under one square mile of Leflore County maps onto soluble rock. With about 26,157 residents (44 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 312 map points about 1.4 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 Leflore County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Chickasaw County, MS, about 82 miles east. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Sunflower County, MS 18 mi west · 0% at surface
Carroll County, MS 23 mi east · 0% at surface
Tallahatchie County, MS 29 mi north · 0% at surface
Holmes County, MS 32 mi south · 0% at surface
Humphreys County, MS 32 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Grenada County, MS 32 mi northeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Mississippi

Leflore County ranks 62 of 82 in Mississippi for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.