Missouri Place Where 90% of the Land is Susceptible to Landslides

I have learned the hard way that there is one thing that will never negotiate with you and that's gravity. One Missouri place is evidence of this as nearly 90% of the land is susceptible to landslides.

I was born and raised in Missouri and have lived in my home state most of my life with only a few exceptions. I thought I knew just about everything there was to know about the Show Me State, but I have once again been reminded about how little I really know.

Stacker just dropped a new list of the counties in Missouri that are most susceptible to landslides and one place in the state has nearly 90% of its land susceptible to collapsing under your feet. It's Reynolds County which is in the Mark Twain National Forest area southwest of St. Louis.

Reynolds County has 89.5% of its land that is landslide prone with accounts for 725 unstable acres. However, this is arguably one of the most beautiful parts of Missouri, too. Hard to argue with views like this.

This is all based on data from the USGS Slope-Relief Threshold Landslide information which included county-level mapping. It's really not that surprising when you think about it. We know that Missouri has over 7,500 caves and who knows how many sinkholes. The fact that much of the land above all that geology might move beneath our feet is just a part of life in Missouri I suppose.