Sinkhole risk in Wilkinson County, MS: 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 678 square miles, under one square mile of Wilkinson County maps onto soluble rock. With about 7,820 residents (12 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 319 map points about 1.5 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 Wilkinson County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Noxubee County, MS, about 210 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 21 mi south · 0% at surface
Adams County, MS 23 mi north · 0% at surface
East Feliciana Parish, LA 28 mi southeast · 0% at surface
Concordia Parish, LA 28 mi northwest · 0% at surface
Amite County, MS 31 mi east · 0% at surface
Franklin County, MS 33 mi northeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Mississippi

Wilkinson County ranks 81 of 82 in Mississippi for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.