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NR-1 Sinkhole – an underwater sinkhole first located by the NR-1 submarine; located southwest of Key West, Florida; Peter Sinks – a natural sinkhole in northern Utah, one of the coldest places in the contiguous United States; Pipe Creek Sinkhole – near Swayzee in Grant County, Indiana, important paleontological site
List of sinkholes in the United States; 0–9. 2014 National Corvette Museum sinkhole; B. Bayou Corne sinkhole; Bering Sinkhole; Big Basin Prairie Preserve; Blue Hole ...
Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania are the U.S. states where sinkholes are most likely to open up, according to the American Geosciences Institute.
The greatest amount of karst sinkhole damage in the United States occurs in Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. [23] The largest recent sinkhole in the USA is possibly one that formed in 1972 in Montevallo, Alabama, as a result of man-made lowering of the water level in a nearby rock quarry. This "December ...
A 30-foot-deep sinkhole formed along an Oregon coastline inches away from one that appeared months earlier, park officials said. The second sinkhole, which is 10 feet wide, appeared Monday, May 8 ...
Sinkholes in the United States are most commonly reported in Missouri, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Peter Sinks is a natural sinkhole in northern Utah that is one of the coldest places in the contiguous United States.. Peter Sinks is located 8,100 feet (2,500 m) above sea level, in the Bear River Mountains about 20 mi (32 km) east of Logan, within the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
In 2023, a sinkhole that in 2013 fatally swallowed a man sleeping in his house in suburban Tampa, Florida, reopened for a third time, but it was behind chain-link fencing and caused no harm to people or property. Officials said the sinkhole reopening was not unusual, especially in central Florida with its porous limestone base.