# U.S. Forest Service Geospatial Data Discovery (DCAT-US catalog)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/forest-service/geospatial-data-discovery/  
**Provider:** Forest Service — https://apis.io/providers/forest-service/  
**Base URL:** https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com  
**Documentation:** https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/

U.S. Forest Service Geospatial Data Discovery (DCAT-US catalog) is one of 5 APIs that [Forest Service](https://apis.io/providers/forest-service/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Open Data, Geospatial, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and API documentation.

The agency's Geospatial Data Discovery site publishes a machine-readable DCAT-US 1.1 / Project Open Data catalog of Forest Service datasets — a ~2 MB JSON document declaring "@type": "dcat:Catalog" and conformsTo the Project Open Data v1.1 schema, with a dataset[] array of dcat:Dataset entries. This is the inventory federal agencies publish under the OPEN Government Data Act. The site is named as an official access route on the agency's own FSGeodata Clearinghouse Map Services page, which is how the Esri-tenant hostname is confirmed as a Forest Service surface rather than a vendor's.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **APIReference** — https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/api/feed/dcat-us/1.1.json
- **Documentation** — https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/mapServices.php

## Other Forest Service APIs (4)

- [FIADB-API (EVALIDator)](https://apis.io/apis/forest-service/fiadb-api/)
- [Forest Service Research Data Archive Web Service](https://apis.io/apis/forest-service/research-data-archive/)
- [FSGeodata Enterprise Data Warehouse Map Services](https://apis.io/apis/forest-service/fsgeodata-edw-map-services/)
- [FSGeodata Research Data Warehouse Map Services](https://apis.io/apis/forest-service/fsgeodata-rdw-map-services/)

## Tags

Open Data, Geospatial, Metadata

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