Stowell, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 13.8 miles southeast of Stowell, TX
The coast 13.8 miles southeast of Stowell, TX has been retreating at a measured 2.92 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 29.2 feet over the last decade.
What "Stowell" 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 Stowell, TX. Centered near 29.64°N, 94.20°W. USGS's Gulf of Mexico assessment last surveyed this stretch through 2001, 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.
25 years at this rate
If 2.92 ft/yr holds for the next 25 years, the coast 13.8 miles southeast of Stowell, TX would retreat roughly 73 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 106 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: 2.54 ft/yr either side. This segment ranks 97 of 1211 measured US coastal segments, ordered from fastest erosion to fastest growth. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. Rank 14 nationally for erosion belongs to Dulac, LA, 207 miles from this stretch, measured at 13.82 ft/yr, 4.7x this stretch's rate. 2.4 miles up the coast, Stowell, TX shows 2.3 ft/yr of eroding.
Stowell, TX on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.