Sinkhole risk in Pointe Coupee Parish, LA: 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 Pointe Coupee Parish

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

Across 555 square miles, under one square mile of Pointe Coupee Parish maps onto soluble rock. With about 19,845 residents (36 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 577 map points about 1.0 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 Pointe Coupee Parish

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Noxubee County, MS, about 243 miles northeast. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

West Feliciana Parish, LA 16 mi northeast · 0% at surface
West Baton Rouge Parish, LA 24 mi southeast · 0% at surface
St. Landry Parish, LA 24 mi west · 0% at surface
East Baton Rouge Parish, LA 32 mi east · 0% at surface
Iberville Parish, LA 33 mi southeast · 0% at surface
East Feliciana Parish, LA 35 mi east · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Louisiana

Pointe Coupee Parish ranks 39 of 64 in Louisiana for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.