aid: doi name: Department of Interior description: >- The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) manages and conserves federal lands and natural resources across America. DOI's bureaus and offices provide REST APIs and data services covering national park information, water resources, earthquake data, mineral resources, geospatial federal land boundaries, and wildlife data. Key API providers include the National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/doi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2026-06-13' modified: '2026-06-13' specificationVersion: '0.19' type: Index tags: - Federal Government - National Parks - Federal Lands - Water Resources - Wildlife - Minerals - Geospatial - Geology - Native American Affairs - Public Lands apis: - name: NPS Data API description: >- The National Park Service Data API provides authoritative data about NPS sites including parks, alerts, campgrounds, events, visitor centers, news releases, articles, and educational lesson plans. Access requires a free API key sent via HTTP request header. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/index.htm baseURL: https://developer.nps.gov/api/v1 tags: - National Parks - Recreation - Federal Lands - Campgrounds - Events properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/api-documentation.htm - type: GettingStarted url: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/get-started.htm - type: Authentication url: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/api-guides.htm contact: - FN: National Park Service Developer Resources url: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/index.htm - name: USGS Water Data APIs description: >- Modernized USGS Water Data APIs providing real-time and historical water resource data including continuous sensor measurements, daily values, and water quality information from thousands of monitoring sites nationwide. Supports OGC API standards and STAC for geospatial data access. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov baseURL: https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov tags: - Water - Hydrology - Streamflow - Water Quality - Real-Time Data properties: - type: Documentation url: https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/docs/ - type: Migration url: https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/docs/ogcapi/migration/ - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/doi-usgs-water-openapi.yml contact: - FN: USGS Water Resources url: https://www.usgs.gov/tools/usgs-water-data-apis - name: USGS Earthquake Hazards Web Services description: >- Real-time earthquake data feeds, notifications, and web services providing access to seismic event data including location, magnitude, depth, and related hazard information. Supports GeoJSON, QuakeML, and CSV formats. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/ baseURL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1 tags: - Earthquakes - Seismic - Natural Hazards - Real-Time Data properties: - type: Documentation url: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/ contact: - FN: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program url: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ - name: USGS Mineral Resources Data API description: >- API access to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) and related mineral deposit databases. Supports geographic queries, bounding box searches, point queries, and access to data on mineral deposits, mining operations, and geochemical samples across the United States. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/catalog/api.php baseURL: https://mrdata.usgs.gov tags: - Minerals - Mining - Geochemistry - Natural Resources properties: - type: Documentation url: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/catalog/api.php contact: - FN: USGS Mineral Resources Program url: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/mineral-resources-program/data - name: BLM GIS REST Services description: >- Bureau of Land Management geospatial REST services providing access to federal land status, cadastral data (Public Land Survey System), mineral rights boundaries, and other BLM-managed land data through ArcGIS REST service endpoints. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://www.blm.gov/services/geospatial/GISData baseURL: https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services tags: - Geospatial - Federal Lands - Cadastral - GIS - Public Lands properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.blm.gov/services/geospatial/GISData contact: - FN: Bureau of Land Management Geospatial url: https://www.blm.gov/services/geospatial - name: USGS ScienceBase API description: >- ScienceBase provides collaborative scientific data management infrastructure enabling upload, documentation, sharing, and discovery of USGS scientific data using standards-compliant REST web services. Covers a broad range of earth science, ecology, and natural resource data. image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/ baseURL: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog tags: - Science Data - Ecology - Natural Resources - Data Catalog properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.usgs.gov/sciencebase-instructions-and-documentation/api-and-web-services contact: - FN: USGS ScienceBase url: https://www.sciencebase.gov common: - type: Website url: https://www.doi.gov/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.doi.gov/ocio/customers/web-services - type: GitHubOrg url: https://github.com/usgs - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/department-of-the-interior - type: Blog url: https://www.doi.gov/blog - type: X url: https://twitter.com/interior - type: Plans url: plans/doi-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/doi-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/doi-finops.yml maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com