Sinkhole risk in Panola 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 811 square miles, under one square mile of Panola County maps onto soluble rock. With about 23,022 residents (28 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 345 map points about 1.5 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 Panola County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Adair County, OK, about 259 miles north. 5 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Rusk County, TX 27 mi west · 0% at surface
Harrison County, TX 27 mi north · 0% at surface
Shelby County, TX 28 mi south · 0% at surface
De Soto Parish, LA 34 mi east · 0% at surface
Gregg County, TX 37 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Caddo Parish, LA 38 mi northeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Texas

Panola County ranks 220 of 254 in Texas for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.