# USGS Site Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/site-service/  
**Provider:** USGS Water Services — https://apis.io/providers/usgs-water/  
**Base URL:** https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/  
**Documentation:** https://waterservices.usgs.gov/docs/site-service/site-service-details/

USGS Site Service is one of 43 APIs that [USGS Water Services](https://apis.io/providers/usgs-water/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Site Metadata, Monitoring Locations, Geospatial, and NWIS. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Searches and retrieves metadata for millions of USGS hydrologic data collection sites including streams, springs, wells, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, and glaciers. Filtering options include site number, state, HUC, bounding box, county, site type, and parameter codes. Outputs include tab-delimited, KML, and GeoJSON.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/docs/site-service/site-service-details/
- **Website** — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/

## Other USGS Water Services APIs (12)

- [USGS Instantaneous Values Service](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/instantaneous-values/)
- [USGS Daily Values Service](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/daily-values/)
- [USGS Statistics Service](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/statistics-service/)
- [USGS Groundwater Levels Service](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/groundwater-levels/)
- [Water Quality Portal (WQP) API](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/water-quality-portal/)
- [USGS Water Data Statistics API](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/statistics-next-gen/)
- [USGS Water Services agency-codes API](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/usgs-water-agency-codes-api/)
- [USGS Water Services altitude-datums API](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/usgs-water-altitude-datums-api/)
- [USGS Water Services aquifer-codes API](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/usgs-water-aquifer-codes-api/)
- [USGS Water Services aquifer-types API](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/usgs-water-aquifer-types-api/)
- [USGS Water Services channel-measurements API](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/usgs-water-channel-measurements-api/)
- [USGS Water Services citations API](https://apis.io/apis/usgs-water/usgs-water-citations-api/)

## Tags

Site Metadata, Monitoring Locations, Geospatial, NWIS

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