Sinkhole risk in Lincoln 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 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 586 square miles, under one square mile of Lincoln County maps onto soluble rock. With about 34,956 residents (60 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 311 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 Lincoln County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Noxubee County, MS, about 155 miles northeast. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Lawrence County, MS 20 mi east · 0% at surface
Copiah County, MS 23 mi north · 0% at surface
Pike County, MS 25 mi south · 0% at surface
Franklin County, MS 26 mi west · 0% at surface
Amite County, MS 31 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Walthall County, MS 33 mi southeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Mississippi

Lincoln County ranks 63 of 82 in Mississippi for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.