Ocean City, MD Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 1.6 miles north of Ocean City, MD
Nothing alarming measured 1.6 miles north of Ocean City, 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 this reading actually covers
Ocean City, MD is the nearest named place, 1.6 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: 38.42, -75.07. The survey behind it runs to 2007-2009, in USGS's New England / Mid-Atlantic assessment, using the LRR method. Shoreline surveys aren't repeated every year, so this is the most recent long-term measurement USGS has published for this coast, not a live reading.
How solid is this number
Averaging 37 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 0% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.56 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, 0.08 ft/yr, would place it 835 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: North Wildwood, NJ, 43 miles away, ranks 1193 of 1211 nationally for growth, 4.21 ft/yr. 1.7 miles away, Ocean City, MD is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
One address near Ocean City: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.