Galveston, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 2.1 miles north of Galveston, TX
Nothing alarming measured 2.1 miles north of Galveston, TX: whatever shift USGS's transects picked up here is too small to call reliably one way or the other, which this site reports as "no significant trend" rather than forcing a direction.
What this reading actually covers
Galveston, TX is the nearest named place, 2.1 miles away, to a ~3.5-mile stretch of coast USGS has surveyed - the reading below covers that whole stretch, not a single property in it. Segment center: 29.22, -94.96. Survey years: 2001, method LRR, from USGS's Gulf of Mexico 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.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 74 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 72% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.15 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.05 ft/yr, would place it 706 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 2004-1089. Rank 1193 nationally for growth belongs to North Wildwood, NJ, 1332 miles from this stretch, measured at 4.21 ft/yr. 1.8 miles up the coast, Galveston, TX shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Galveston itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.