SinkholeOdds

Sinkhole risk in Nueces County, TX: 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 839 square miles, under one square mile of Nueces County maps onto soluble rock. With about 353,125 residents (421 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 272 map points about 1.8 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 Nueces County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Runnels County, TX, about 320 miles northwest. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Against the rest of Texas

Nueces County ranks 218 of 254 in Texas for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.