Lincoln City, OR Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 1.9 miles south of Lincoln City, OR?
Nothing alarming measured 1.9 miles south of Lincoln City, 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 "Lincoln City" means on this page
Lincoln City, OR is the nearest named place, 1.9 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: 44.95, -124.02. USGS's Pacific Northwest assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2002-2011, 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.
What backs this reading up
104 transects feed this segment's number; 78% of them individually measured retreat. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.47 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.23 ft/yr, would place it 468 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. Rank 1030 nationally for growth belongs to Redondo Beach, CA, 823 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.53 ft/yr. Lincoln Beach, OR, 2.4 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
One address near Lincoln City: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.