Sargent, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 9 miles southwest of Sargent, TX
The coast 9 miles southwest of Sargent, TX has been retreating at a measured 3.1 feet a year, USGS's own long-term rate for this stretch, built from historical shoreline positions rather than a single survey. At that rate, the shoreline has lost roughly 31 feet over the last decade.
What "Sargent" means on this page
This is a roughly 3.5-mile stretch of coast, not one address or parcel - USGS's own transects run every few hundred feet, but that's finer than any one property needs, so this page reports the stretch nearest Sargent, TX. Centered near 28.72°N, 95.76°W. Survey years: 2001, method LRR, from USGS's Gulf of Mexico 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.
25 years at this rate
If 3.1 ft/yr holds for the next 25 years, the coast 9 miles southwest of Sargent, TX would retreat roughly 78 more feet, a projection, not a certainty: erosion rates shift with storms, sediment supply and any armoring built in the meantime.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 68 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 100% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. Uncertainty on this specific number: 0.79 ft/yr either side. Among the 1211 US coastal segments with a measurable trend, this one ranks 92 for erosion, 1 being the fastest-retreating coast in the dataset. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. For scale: Klamath, CA, 1820 miles away, ranks 329 of 1211 nationally for erosion, 0.44 ft/yr, 0.1x this stretch's rate. Sargent, TX, 1.7 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, reading severe erosion at 4.01 ft/yr.
Sargent, TX on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.