Bliss Corner, MA Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 5.9 miles south of Bliss Corner, MA
The coast 5.9 miles south of Bliss Corner, MA shows no statistically significant trend either way. USGS's transects measured a rate here, but it's smaller than the survey's own margin of error for this stretch, so calling it "eroding" or "growing" would overstate what the data actually shows.
What this reading actually covers
Nothing here is parcel-level. USGS's raw transects run every few hundred feet along the shore; this page averages the ones nearest Bliss Corner, MA into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 41.52°N, 70.96°W. The survey behind it runs to 2007-2009, in USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic assessment, using the LRR method. Shoreline surveys aren't repeated every year, so this is the most recent long-term measurement USGS has published for this coast, not a live reading.
What backs this reading up
This reading comes from 18 individual transects averaged together, 89% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.09 ft/yr. Taken at face value, this segment's raw -0.08 ft/yr reading would land it 673 of 1211 nationally - a number worth ignoring, since it's statistical noise rather than a real trend. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1119. Fort Dick, CA sits at national rank 970 for growth (0.32 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2701 miles from here. 1.4 miles away, Bliss Corner, MA is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
One address near Bliss Corner: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.