Newark, MD Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 7.8 miles southeast of Newark, MD
Nothing alarming measured 7.8 miles southeast of Newark, MD: 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 "Newark" means on this page
Newark, MD is the nearest named place, 7.8 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: 38.21, -75.17. Survey years: 2007-2009, method LRR, from USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic 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 81 individual transects averaged together, 38% of which measured erosion rather than growth. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.46 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.04 ft/yr, would place it 808 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 2010-1119. For scale: Ocean City, NJ, 81 miles away, ranks 1162 of 1211 nationally for growth, 2.2 ft/yr. 1.8 miles up the coast, Newark, MD shows the same lack of a significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Newark itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.