Texas City, TX Coastal Erosion Rate
Shoreline change 10.2 miles east of Texas City, TX
Nothing alarming measured 10.2 miles east of Texas City, TX: whatever shift USGS's transects picked up here is too small to call reliably one way or the other, which this site reports as "no significant trend" rather than forcing a direction.
What "Texas City" means on this page
Texas City, TX is the nearest named place, 10.2 miles away, to a ~3.5-mile stretch of coast USGS has surveyed - the reading below covers that whole stretch, not a single property in it. Segment center: 29.42, -94.72. 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.
Where this fits nationally
This reading comes from 8 individual transects averaged together, 0% of which measured erosion rather than growth. USGS's confidence interval here is ±2.29 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, 0.15 ft/yr, would place it 890 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. Rank 1185 nationally for growth belongs to Wildwood Crest, NJ, 1310 miles from this stretch, measured at 3.33 ft/yr. Texas City, TX, 1.6 miles off, is the adjacent measured stretch, reading accretion (beach growing) at 2.85 ft/yr.
One address near Texas City: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.