Texas City, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 9.5 miles east of Texas City, TX
The coast 9.5 miles east of Texas City, TX is actually gaining ground, not losing it: USGS's transects measure 2.85 feet of accretion a year here, sediment building up rather than washing away. At that rate, the shoreline has gained roughly 28.5 feet over the last decade.
The grain of this number
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 Texas City, TX. Centered near 29.40°N, 94.74°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
Holding the 2.85 ft/yr accretion rate 9.5 miles east of Texas City, TX for 25 years would add roughly 71 feet of shoreline, again assuming nothing about the local sediment supply changes.
Where this fits nationally
Averaging 72 separate transects produced this segment's rate, with 0% individually reading as erosion, rather than relying on any single survey line. USGS's confidence interval here is ±2.4 ft/yr. This segment ranks 1179 of 1211 measured US coastal segments, ordered from fastest erosion to fastest growth. Source: USGS Open-File Report 2004-1089. Rank 995 nationally for growth belongs to Beach Haven, NJ, 1358 miles from this stretch, measured at 0.4 ft/yr, 0.1x this stretch's rate. 1.6 miles up the coast, Texas City, TX shows the same lack of a significant trend.
One address near Texas City: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.