CoastErosionCheck

Glasgow, OR Coastal Erosion Rate

Shoreline change 4 miles northwest of Glasgow, OR

No significant trend

Nothing alarming measured 4 miles northwest of Glasgow, OR: 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 "Glasgow" means on this page

Glasgow, OR is the nearest named place, 4 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: 43.46, -124.27. 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.

What backs this reading up

64 transects feed this segment's number; 75% of them individually measured retreat. USGS's confidence interval here is ±0.67 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.06 ft/yr, would place it 698 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. Brigantine, NJ sits at national rank 1166 for growth (2.23 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 2560 miles from here. 1.9 miles up the coast, North Bend, OR shows the same lack of a significant trend.

Not this whole stretch, just Glasgow itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.