Sinkhole risk in Perry County, MS: 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%

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 647 square miles, under one square mile of Perry County maps onto soluble rock. With about 11,406 residents (18 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 390 map points about 1.3 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 Perry County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Noxubee County, MS, about 136 miles north. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Forrest County, MS 16 mi west · 0% at surface
Greene County, MS 21 mi east · 0% at surface
Stone County, MS 27 mi south · 0% at surface
George County, MS 30 mi southeast · 0% at surface
Lamar County, MS 31 mi west · 0% at surface
Jones County, MS 33 mi north · under 1% at surface

Against the rest of Mississippi

Perry County ranks 69 of 82 in Mississippi for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.