Sinkhole risk in Stark County, OH: 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 Stark County

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

Across 575 square miles, under one square mile of Stark County maps onto soluble rock. With about 374,091 residents (651 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 315 map points about 1.4 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 Stark County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Monroe County, MI, about 134 miles northwest. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Carroll County, OH 22 mi southeast · 0% at surface
Summit County, OH 23 mi north · 0% at surface
Tuscarawas County, OH 26 mi south · 0% at surface
Portage County, OH 26 mi north · 0% at surface
Wayne County, OH 27 mi west · 0% at surface
Columbiana County, OH 31 mi east · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Ohio

Stark County ranks 76 of 88 in Ohio for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.