Coastal Data & Maps

• Coastal Management Program Biennial Report 2021 – 2022
  Report submitted to the Texas Legislature summarizing the effectiveness of the Coastal Management Program.
• CEPRA Report to the 88th Texas Legislature
  Report submitted to the Texas Legislature summarizing critical erosion areas, erosion response projects and those projects' economic and natural resource benefits.
• 2020 Coastwide Erosion Response Plan
  Report identifying critical coastal erosion areas and prioritizing coastal erosion response studies.

• Homeowner's Handbook to Prepare for Coastal Natural Hazards
  General information for homeowners about coastal storms and how to prepare, evacuate, rebuild, or retrofit to be more resilient to these weather events.
• Viviendoas para Enfrentar los Desatres Naturals Costeros en Texas

Find your perfect beach. Texas Coasts provides a location-enabled mapping function with turn-by-turn directions to each of the more than 600 destinations along the Texas coast. The application integrates with both Facebook and Twitter for users to share vacation plans with friends and family. 

https://www.txcoasts.com   

The 2015 Toolkit website houses all Area Contingency Plans (ACPs) within U.S. Coast Guard District 8, maps covering Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, Regional Response Team (RRT) guidance and documents, ICS Forms (in WORD, EXCEL, PDF, MAC and Spanish), Response Plans, NOAA Job Aids, SCAT Forms, Internet links and oceanographic and meteorological information and much, much more.

The Toolkit is a response tool brought to you through a combined effort of the Texas General Land Office, U.S. Coast Guard District 8, and NOAA, as well as contributions from many of our sister State and Federal partners. 

https://ost.glo.texas.gov/index.html 

Long-term historical shoreline change rates of the Texas coast. 

https://coastal.beg.utexas.edu/shorelinechange2019/ 

Resource Management Codes assist potential bidders by providing the best available information on natural resource concerns that may be associated with leasing state land tracts,  and assist them with project planning efforts and development guidelines for activities within the tracts.

Coastal Resource Management Viewer

CHRGIS is an interactive, online archive, qualitative analysis, and mapping tool. CHRGIS provides for visualization of beach profile survey data and aerial imagery from the Coastal Erosion Planning & Response Act (CEPRA) Program, in support of the Beach Monitoring and Maintenance Plan (BMMP). The mapping and profile analysis tools allow for online qualitative analysis of beaches nourished through the CEPRA program and was developed by the Conrad Blucher Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, through collaboration with the Texas Coastal Management Program (CMP) and the CEPRA program.

http://www.cbi.tamucc.edu/CHRGIS/ 

The website provides not only coastal data, but also the tools, training, and information needed to make these data truly useful. Content comes from many sources, all of which are vetted by NOAA. 

http://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/ 

Text for WYSIWYG (optional):  ___ Spill Toolkit, EPA National Disaster Operational Workgroup, TABS Buoy Gulf of Mexico weather and new tools like the advanced drawing tool. 

https://gisweb.glo.texas.gov/ostoolkit/index.html 

The Texas Coastal Sediments Geodatabase (TxSed) is sediment related geospatial and geotechnical data. TxSed can be used to assist in identifying compatible sediment resources for proposed beach nourishment or habitat restoration projects, and can be used as an aid in the permitting/regulatory processes for such projects.

https://www.txsed.com 

The NEW Land & Lease Mapping Viewer, an interactive mapping application, provides access to vast collections of land- and energy-related data at the General Land Office. The viewer displays upland and submerged Original Texas Land Survey boundaries, Permanent School Fund land, upland and coastal leases, oil and gas well locations, and current aerial imagery

https://gisweb.glo.texas.gov/glomapjs/index.html 

A series of technical tools and future scenarios from analysis to support the practical understanding of impacts to the environment and to human coastal communities that may result from SLR and related climate hazards, including storm surge, in the Gulf of Mexico region. 

http://slr.stormsmart.org 

The SSPEED Center seeks to advance research and other scholarly activities which facilitates the creation and dissemination of knowledge, to better address severe storm impacts and evacuation strategies in the Gulf Coast area.

https://www.sspeed.rice.edu/ 

Our collection of maps, photos, documents and other spatial datasets were acquired from multiple sources including state, federal, and local agencies, with support and donations from private sources. They encompass a wide range of years, beginning all the way from the 1920s to the present-day. 

http://tnris.org/