Depoe Bay, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 5 miles south of Depoe Bay, OR
Good news, and an honest one: USGS's data can't distinguish this stretch, 5 miles south of Depoe Bay, OR, from a flat trend. Whatever small movement it measured here is statistical noise, not a reliable direction, so none is claimed.
What "Depoe Bay" means on this page
USGS surveys the coast in transects spaced a few hundred feet apart; this page groups the nearest ones into a single ~3.5-mile reading for the stretch closest to Depoe Bay, OR, rather than showing one arbitrary line. Segment center: 44.74, -124.05. Survey years: 2002-2011, method LRR, from USGS's Pacific Northwest shoreline-change assessment. That's how current the data is here, real, but not a live feed, since a shoreline survey is a major undertaking, not an annual check-in.
How solid is this number
This reading comes from 44 individual transects averaged together, 30% of which measured erosion rather than growth. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.75 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.12 ft/yr, would place it 868 of 1211 if ranked directly - but an unreliable rank isn't a useful one, which is exactly why "no significant trend" is the headline instead. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2012-1008. Ocean Park, WA sits at national rank 1113 for growth (1.04 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 125 miles from here. Newport, OR, 2.5 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
One address near Depoe Bay: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.