SinkholeOdds

Sinkhole risk in Paulding County, GA: No soluble rock mapped

No soluble rock mapped

No soluble bedrock mapped.

On soluble rock
under 1%
At or near the surface
under 1%
Buried under cover
0%

The next step for one property

No soluble bedrock is mapped here, so natural sinkholes are unlikely. Collapses from broken pipes or old mines are a separate risk.

Across 312 square miles, under one square mile of Paulding County maps onto soluble rock. With about 188,549 residents (604 per square mile), most of the county is built up, so a mapped unit is likely to sit under somebody's street. The figures come from 312 map points about 1.0 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Read next: how these percentages are measured, and the warning signs that apply anywhere.

Counties around Paulding County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Polk County, GA, about 19 miles west, close enough that the same rock may run under the county line. 4 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Which formation it is

The largest mapped soluble unit here is the Newala Limestone (limestone), Ordovician in age, covering about under 1% of the county.

Against the rest of Georgia

Paulding County ranks 71 of 159 in Georgia for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 51% of US counties on that measure.