Taylor Landing, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
Is the coast eroding 14.1 miles south of Taylor Landing, TX?
2.63 feet a year: that is the measured retreat rate USGS's transects show for the coast 14.1 miles south of Taylor Landing, TX, averaged across the full historical record surveyed here. At that rate, the shoreline has lost roughly 26.3 feet over the last decade.
What "Taylor Landing" means on this page
Nothing here is parcel-level. USGS's raw transects run every few hundred feet along the shore; this page averages the ones nearest Taylor Landing, TX into one ~3.5-mile reading rather than picking a single arbitrary line to represent the area. Centered near 29.66°N, 94.15°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 2.63 ft/yr holds for the next 25 years, the coast 14.1 miles south of Taylor Landing, TX would retreat roughly 66 more feet, a projection, not a certainty: erosion rates shift with storms, sediment supply and any armoring built in the meantime.
How solid is this number
Averaging 107 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 100% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. The published margin on this reading runs ±2.24 ft/yr. Among the 1211 US coastal segments with a measurable trend, this one ranks 106 for erosion, 1 being the fastest-retreating coast in the dataset. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. Charlestown, RI sits at national rank 374 for erosion (0.35 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 1494 miles from here. Taylor Landing, TX, 1.8 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, itself no significant trend.
Not this whole stretch, just Taylor Landing itself: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal is USGS's own live version of this data.