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Natural Resources Conservation Service

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is a federal agency under the United States Department of Agriculture that works to help farmers, ranchers, and landowners conserve and protect natural resources. They provide technical assistance, financial assistance, and conservation planning to help individuals and communities implement conservation practices that improve soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat.

Natural Resources Conservation Service publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Query API, SOAP API, and Spatial API. Tagged areas include Federal Government, Agriculture, Conservation, Soil, and Natural Resources.

Natural Resources Conservation Service’s developer surface includes documentation and 6 more developer resources.

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35.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
4 APIs
Federal GovernmentAgricultureConservationSoilNatural Resources

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 35.3/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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 geogr...

Natural Resources Conservation Service Query API

The Query API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 1 operation(s) for query.

Natural Resources Conservation Service SOAP API

The SOAP API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 1 operation(s) for soap.

Natural Resources Conservation Service Spatial API

The Spatial API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 2 operation(s) for spatial.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

USDA NRCS Soil Data Access

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Natural Resources Conservation Service Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Natural Resources Conservation Service Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Natural Resources Conservation Service Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Natural Resources Conservation Service Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Natural Resources Conservation Service Agentic Access

4 operations · 2 acting

4 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Data
Data

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: natural-resources-conservation-service
name: Natural Resources Conservation Service
description: The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is a federal agency under the United States Department of Agriculture
  that works to help farmers, ranchers, and landowners conserve and protect natural resources. They provide technical assistance,
  financial assistance, and conservation planning to help individuals and communities implement conservation practices that
  improve soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/natural-resources-conservation-service.png
tags:
- Federal Government
- Agriculture
- Conservation
- Soil
- Natural Resources
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/natural-resources-conservation-service/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-02'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- 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
- aid: natural-resources-conservation-service:natural-resources-conservation-service-query-api
  name: Natural Resources Conservation Service Query API
  description: The Query API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 1 operation(s) for query.
  humanURL: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
  baseURL: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
  tags:
  - Query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/natural-resources-conservation-service-query-api-openapi.yml
- aid: natural-resources-conservation-service:natural-resources-conservation-service-soap-api
  name: Natural Resources Conservation Service SOAP API
  description: The SOAP API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 1 operation(s) for soap.
  humanURL: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
  baseURL: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
  tags:
  - SOAP
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/natural-resources-conservation-service-soap-api-openapi.yml
- aid: natural-resources-conservation-service:natural-resources-conservation-service-spatial-api
  name: Natural Resources Conservation Service Spatial API
  description: The Spatial API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 2 operation(s) for spatial.
  humanURL: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
  baseURL: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
  tags:
  - Spatial
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/natural-resources-conservation-service-spatial-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/natural-resources-conservation-service-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/natural-resources-conservation-service-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/USDA-NRCS
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/natural-resources-conservation-service
- url: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov
  type: Website
- url: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/data-and-reports
  type: Documentation
- url: https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
  type: Data
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com