Rankin County, MS
The federal environmental record for Rankin County (population 160,417): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
2
Superfund NPL sites
7
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
8
TRI facilities
56
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flowood Site | Flowood | deleted | 09/21/1984 |
| Sonford Products | Flowood | on the NPL | 03/07/2007 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving Rankin reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
8 facilities in Rankin filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 958k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUCOR STEEL JACKSON INC | FLOWOOD | Zinc compounds, Copper And Copper Compounds | 941k lb |
| SANDERSON FARMS LLC | FLOWOOD | Ammonia | 9k lb |
| AIRGAS CARBONIC | STAR | Ammonia | 8k lb |
| WARING OIL CO | JACKSON | - | 0 lb |
| JACKSON READY-MIX PLANT 8 | BRANDON | Lead | 0 lb |
| THE CALVERT CO | RICHLAND | - | 0 lb |
| SIEMENS ENERGY INC. RICHLAND MS | RICHLAND | - | 0 lb |
| MMC MATERIALS INC - RESERVOIR | BRANDON | Lead | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 341 tank facilities in Rankin: 386 tanks in service and 653 closed. 173 fuel releases are on record, of which 56 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Rankin as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Rankin, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- EXIDE CORPORATION, FLORENCE BATTERY PLANTFLORENCE
- EXIDE TECHNOLOGIESFLORENCE
- FLORENCE OXIDE/EXPANDER PLANTFLORENCE
- FLOWOOD SITEFLOWOOD
- GULF STATES CREOSOTING COMPANYFLOWOOD
- MILLARD ANHYDROUS AMMONIA RELEASERICHLAND
- SONFORD PRODUCTSFLOWOOD