Beaver, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 6.7 miles west of Beaver, OR?
6.7 miles west of Beaver, OR: USGS's transects didn't pick up a trend here that beats the survey's own uncertainty. That's the majority case nationally, and for this stretch specifically it means the coast is holding, not that the data failed to find anything.
What "Beaver" means on this page
This is a roughly 3.5-mile stretch of coast, not one address or parcel - USGS's own transects run every few hundred feet, but that's finer than any one property needs, so this page reports the stretch nearest Beaver, OR. Centered near 45.30°N, 123.96°W. USGS's Pacific Northwest assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2002-2011, computing the rate with its LRR method. Other US regions were surveyed in different years, sometimes decades apart, so this page states its own rather than implying one national vintage.
What backs this reading up
96 transects feed this segment's number; 33% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 1.92 ft/yr either side. Taken at face value, this segment's raw 0.17 ft/yr reading would land it 904 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. For scale: Margate City, NJ, 2520 miles away, ranks 1076 of 1211 nationally for growth, 0.8 ft/yr. 3.5 miles up the coast, Netarts, OR shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Beaver, OR on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.