Sinkhole risk in Nemaha County, NE: 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 407 square miles, under one square mile of Nemaha County maps onto soluble rock. With about 7,046 residents (17 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 321 map points about 1.1 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 Nemaha County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Johnson County, KS, about 117 miles southeast. 1 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band; the ground changes quickly around here.

Richardson County, NE 20 mi south · 0% at surface
Johnson County, NE 22 mi west · 0% at surface
Atchison County, MO 22 mi east · 0% at surface
Otoe County, NE 23 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Pawnee County, NE 27 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Fremont County, IA 28 mi northeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Nebraska

Nemaha County ranks 73 of 93 in Nebraska for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.