# BLM National and State ArcGIS REST / OGC WMS Services

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-land-management/blm-arcgis-gis-services/  
**Provider:** Bureau of Land Management — https://apis.io/providers/bureau-of-land-management/  
**Base URL:** https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services  
**Documentation:** https://www.blm.gov/services/geospatial/GISData

BLM National and State ArcGIS REST / OGC WMS Services is one of 6 APIs that [Bureau of Land Management](https://apis.io/providers/bureau-of-land-management/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Federal-Government, Geospatial, GIS, Land, and Cadastral. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and API documentation.

BLM's own ArcGIS Server estate, operated on blm.gov infrastructure rather than a hosted platform: thirteen REST instances — one national plus Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Eastern States, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming — serving 785 services (463 MapServer, 283 FeatureServer, 16 ImageServer, 12 GPServer). All run ArcGIS Server 11.5 with token security disabled, so the service directory, layer schemas and attribute/spatial queries are anonymously callable. 42 of the 46 national services also publish OGC WMS 1.3.0 GetCapabilities, which is the machine-readable contract for this surface — BLM publishes no OpenAPI for it. Covers surface management agency, the PLSS cadastral fabric, grazing allotments, recreation sites, the National Landscape Conservation System, transportation and administrative boundaries.

## Machine-readable artifacts (16)

- **ArcGIS** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-land-management-arcgis-service-inventory.json
- **ArcGIS** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-land-management-arcgis-national-rest-services.json
- **ArcGIS** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-land-management-arcgis-national-rest-info.json
- **APIReference** — https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services
- **Documentation** — https://www.blm.gov/services/geospatial/GISData
- **GetCapabilities** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-land-management-sma-wms-capabilities.xml
- **GetCapabilities** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-land-management-plss-cadnsdi-wms-capabilities.xml
- **GetCapabilities** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-land-management-admin-unit-wms-capabilities.xml
- **GetCapabilities** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-land-management-recreation-wms-capabilities.xml
- **GetCapabilities** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-land-management-nlcs-wms-capabilities.xml
- **GetCapabilities** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-land-management-grazing-allotment-wms-capabilities.xml
- **GetCapabilities** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-land-management-gtlf-wms-capabilities.xml
- **WMS** — https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/services/lands/BLM_Natl_SMA_Cached_without_PriUnk/MapServer/WMSServer?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities
- **WSDL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/wsdl/bureau-of-land-management-sma-mapserver.wsdl
- **WSDL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-land-management/refs/heads/main/wsdl/bureau-of-land-management-plss-cadnsdi-mapserver.wsdl
- **SOAP** — https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/services/lands/BLM_Natl_SMA_Cached_without_PriUnk/MapServer?wsdl

## Other Bureau of Land Management APIs (5)

- [BLM Geospatial Business Platform (GBP) Hub](https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-land-management/blm-geospatial-business-platform/)
- [BLM Mineral and Land Records System (MLRS)](https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-land-management/blm-mineral-land-records/)
- [BLM General Land Office Records](https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-land-management/blm-general-land-office-records/)
- [BLM ePlanning](https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-land-management/blm-eplanning/)
- [BLM GBP Hub Search API (OGC API - Records)](https://apis.io/apis/bureau-of-land-management/blm-gbp-hub-search-api/)

## Tags

Federal-Government, Geospatial, GIS, Land, Cadastral, OGC, WMS

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