aid: natural-resources-conservation-service
name: Natural Resources Conservation Service
description: >-
  The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is a federal agency under
  the United States Department of Agriculture that works to help farmers,
  ranchers, and landowners conserve and protect natural resources. They
  provide technical assistance, financial assistance, and conservation
  planning to help individuals and communities implement conservation
  practices that improve soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Federal Government
  - Agriculture
  - Conservation
  - Soil
  - Natural Resources
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/natural-resources-conservation-service/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-02'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: natural-resources-conservation-service:soil-data-access-api
    name: NRCS Soil Data Access
    description: >-
      Soil Data Access (SDA) is a USDA-NRCS web service that supports ad hoc
      query and real-time delivery of official soil survey data (SSURGO and
      STATSGO2) for any user-defined geographic area. The service exposes
      tabular query and spatial query endpoints that accept SQL-like requests
      and return JSON or XML responses.
    humanURL: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
    baseURL: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
    tags:
      - Soil
      - Data
      - SSURGO
      - STATSGO2
    properties:
      - url: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov/WebServiceHelp.aspx
        type: Reference
common:
  - url: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov
    type: Website
  - url: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/data-and-reports
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
    type: Data
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com