Sinkhole risk in Wilkes County, GA: 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 Wilkes County

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

Across 470 square miles, under one square mile of Wilkes County maps onto soluble rock. With about 9,567 residents (20 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 245 map points about 1.4 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Counties around Wilkes County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Aiken County, SC, about 66 miles east. 4 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Taliaferro County, GA 17 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Lincoln County, GA 17 mi east · 0% at surface
Oglethorpe County, GA 20 mi west · 0% at surface
Elbert County, GA 24 mi north · 0% at surface
McDuffie County, GA 26 mi southeast · 22% at surface
Warren County, GA 26 mi south · 3% at surface

Against the rest of Georgia

Wilkes County ranks 159 of 159 in Georgia for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.