Sinkhole risk in Sabine 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%

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 867 square miles, under one square mile of Sabine Parish maps onto soluble rock. With about 21,746 residents (25 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 590 map points about 1.2 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 Sabine Parish

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Oktibbeha County, MS, about 302 miles northeast. 4 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Sabine County, TX 23 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Natchitoches Parish, LA 30 mi northeast · 0% at surface
De Soto Parish, LA 36 mi north · 0% at surface
San Augustine County, TX 38 mi west · 0% at surface
Shelby County, TX 38 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Vernon Parish, LA 38 mi southeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Louisiana

Sabine Parish ranks 43 of 64 in Louisiana for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.