Sinkhole risk in Monroe 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%

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 456 square miles, under one square mile of Monroe County maps onto soluble rock. With about 13,051 residents (29 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 286 map points about 1.3 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 Monroe County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Summers County, WV, about 144 miles south. 4 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Noble County, OH 19 mi west · 0% at surface
Belmont County, OH 21 mi north · 20% at surface
Tyler County, WV 21 mi southeast · 0% at surface
Marshall County, WV 24 mi east · 4% at surface
Pleasants County, WV 25 mi south · 0% at surface
Wetzel County, WV 26 mi east · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Ohio

Monroe County ranks 57 of 88 in Ohio for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.