Taylor Landing, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 12.8 miles south of Taylor Landing, TX
Good news, and an honest one: USGS's data can't distinguish this stretch, 12.8 miles south of Taylor Landing, TX, from a flat trend. Whatever small movement it measured here is statistical noise, not a reliable direction, so none is claimed.
What this reading actually covers
USGS surveys the coast in transects spaced a few hundred feet apart; this page groups the nearest ones into a single ~3.5-mile reading for the stretch closest to Taylor Landing, TX, rather than showing one arbitrary line. Segment center: 29.69, -94.05. 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.
What backs this reading up
Averaging 83 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 52% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. Uncertainty on this specific number: 1.25 ft/yr either side. The unadjusted figure here, -0.07 ft/yr, would place it 686 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 2004-1089. Atlantic City, NJ sits at national rank 1137 for growth (1.38 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 1296 miles from here. 2.9 miles up the coast, Taylor Landing, TX shows 5.85 ft/yr of eroding.
Taylor Landing, TX on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.