Taylor Landing, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
What USGS measures 13.9 miles southeast of Taylor Landing, TX
USGS's shoreline-change data puts this stretch, 13.9 miles southeast of Taylor Landing, TX, at 5.85 feet of erosion a year on average, a long-term rate for this specific ~3.5-mile section, not one storm's damage. At that rate, the shoreline has lost roughly 58.5 feet over the last decade.
The grain of this number
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: 29.70, -94.00. 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.
What 5.85 ft/yr means over time
Run 13.9 miles southeast of Taylor Landing, TX's 5.85 ft/yr rate forward 25 years and it implies about 146 feet of further retreat, assuming nothing changes, which is exactly the assumption a seawall or nourishment project exists to break.
What backs this reading up
Averaging 92 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 100% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. USGS's confidence interval here is ±4.27 ft/yr. Among the 1211 US coastal segments with a measurable trend, this one ranks 45 for erosion, 1 being the fastest-retreating coast in the dataset. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. Little River, CA sits at national rank 543 for erosion (0.17 ft/yr), one reference point among the 1211 scored segments, 1811 miles from here. 2.9 miles away, Taylor Landing, TX is the nearest other measured stretch: also no significant trend.
One address near Taylor Landing: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.