Document Type
Report
Department/Program
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publication Date
10-2015
Abstract
The purpose of this report is to document how the Chesapeake Bay shore zone of Accomack County has evolved since 1938. The report does not include the ocean side shorelines of Accomack County. Aerial imagery was taken for most of the Bay region beginning that year and can be used to assess the geomorphic nature of shore change. Aerial photos show how the coast has changed, how beaches, dunes, bars, and spits have grown or decayed, how barriers have breached, how inlets have changed course, and how one shore type has displaced another or has not changed at all. Shore change is a natural process but, quite often, the impacts of man, through shore hardening or inlet stabilization, come to dominate a given shore reach. In addition to documenting historical shorelines, the change in shore positions along the larger creeks in Accomack County will be quantified in this report. The shorelines of very irregular coasts, small creeks and around inlets, and other complicated areas will be shown but not quantified.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21220/V5V606
Keywords
Shoreline Evolution, Accomack County, Chesapeake Bay, Aerial Photography, Human impact, GIS
Funding
This project was funded by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program through Grant # NA14NOS4190141 of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended.
Recommended Citation
Milligan, D. A., Wilcox, C. A., & Hardaway, C. (2015) Shoreline Evolution: Accomack County, Virginia Chesapeake Bay Shorelines, 2015. Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary. https://doi.org/10.21220/V5V606
