# NRCS Soil Data Access

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/natural-resources-conservation-service/soil-data-access-api/  
**Provider:** Natural Resources Conservation Service — https://apis.io/providers/natural-resources-conservation-service/  
**Base URL:** https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov  
**Documentation:** https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov

NRCS Soil Data Access is one of 4 APIs that [Natural Resources Conservation Service](https://apis.io/providers/natural-resources-conservation-service/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Soil, Data, SSURGO, and STATSGO2. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
- **Reference** — https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov/WebServiceHelp.aspx
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/natural-resources-conservation-service/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Natural Resources Conservation Service APIs (3)

- [Natural Resources Conservation Service Query API](https://apis.io/apis/natural-resources-conservation-service/natural-resources-conservation-service-query-api/)
- [Natural Resources Conservation Service SOAP API](https://apis.io/apis/natural-resources-conservation-service/natural-resources-conservation-service-soap-api/)
- [Natural Resources Conservation Service Spatial API](https://apis.io/apis/natural-resources-conservation-service/natural-resources-conservation-service-spatial-api/)

## Tags

Soil, Data, SSURGO, STATSGO2

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