Sinkhole risk in Phillips County, CO: 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 to do about a house in Phillips County
No soluble bedrock is mapped here, so natural sinkholes are unlikely. Collapses from broken pipes or old mines are a separate risk.
Across 688 square miles, under one square mile of Phillips County maps onto soluble rock. With about 4,488 residents (7 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 392 map points about 1.3 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.
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Counties around Phillips County
The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Dawes County, NE, about 152 miles north. 5 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.
- Sedgwick County, CO 19 mi north · 0% at surface
- Chase County, NE 34 mi east · 0% at surface
- Deuel County, NE 36 mi north · 0% at surface
- Logan County, CO 40 mi west · 0% at surface
- Yuma County, CO 41 mi south · 7% at surface
- Perkins County, NE 42 mi northeast · 0% at surface
Against the rest of Colorado
Phillips County ranks 60 of 64 in Colorado for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.
- Pueblo County 45%
- Bent County 44%
- Otero County 42%
- Prowers County 35%
- Kiowa County 30%