Stowell, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 13.1 miles southeast of Stowell, TX
2.3 feet a year: that is the measured retreat rate USGS's transects show for the coast 13.1 miles southeast of Stowell, TX, averaged across the full historical record surveyed here. At that rate, the shoreline has lost roughly 23 feet over the last decade.
What this reading actually covers
Nothing here is parcel-level. USGS's raw transects run every few hundred feet along the shore; this page averages the ones nearest Stowell, TX into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 29.63°N, 94.24°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 2.3 ft/yr holds for the next 25 years, the coast 13.1 miles southeast of Stowell, TX would retreat roughly 57 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
51 transects feed this segment's number; 100% of them individually measured retreat. The published margin on this reading runs ±1.3 ft/yr. This segment ranks 115 of 1211 measured US coastal segments, ordered from fastest erosion to fastest growth. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. For scale: Mokuleia, HI, 3976 miles away, ranks 605 of 1211 nationally for erosion, 0.13 ft/yr, a small fraction of this stretch's own rate. 1.6 miles away, Stowell, TX is the nearest other measured stretch: moderate erosion at 2.22 ft/yr.
Not this whole stretch, just Stowell itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.