Natural Resources Conservation Service

NRCS Soil Data Access

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.

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Documentation
https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov

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https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov/WebServiceHelp.aspx
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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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