Taylor Landing, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 13.3 miles south of Taylor Landing, TX
Good news, and an honest one: USGS's data can't distinguish this stretch, 13.3 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: 29.67, -94.12. 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.
How solid is this number
This reading comes from 12 individual transects averaged together, 100% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±1.85 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -1.67 ft/yr, would place it 151 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. Pajaro Dunes, CA sits at national rank 1011 for growth (0.45 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 1669 miles from here. 1.6 miles away, Taylor Landing, TX is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
Taylor Landing, TX on the source map: try the Coastal Change Hazards Portal, zoomable well past this page's ~3.5-mile grain.