Lamar, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 12 miles east of Lamar, TX
Nothing alarming measured 12 miles east of Lamar, 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
Lamar, TX is the nearest named place, 12 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: 28.14, -96.79. USGS's Gulf of Mexico assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2001, 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.
How solid is this number
83 transects feed this segment's number; 0% of them individually measured retreat. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.81 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, 0.52 ft/yr, would place it 1027 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. For scale: Brigantine, NJ, 1497 miles away, ranks 1166 of 1211 nationally for growth, 2.23 ft/yr. 2 miles away, Lamar, TX is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
One address near Lamar: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.