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 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Query API, SOAP API, Spatial API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Federal Government, Agriculture, Conservation, Soil, and Natural Resources.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Natural Resources Conservation Service’s developer surface includes documentation and 9 more developer resources.

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24.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware Heartbeat 62/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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Federal Government Agriculture Conservation Soil Natural Resources

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Composite quality — 24.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 8.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 2.5 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 16.7 — up to +16.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 45.5 — up to +13.6 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

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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 4

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

USDA NRCS Soil Data Access Query API

OPEN COLLECTION

USDA NRCS Soil Data Access Query SOAP API

OPEN COLLECTION

USDA NRCS Soil Data Access Query Spatial API

OPEN COLLECTION

USDA NRCS Soil Data Access

OPEN COLLECTION

Natural Resources Conservation Service API pricing

Not yet checked against Natural Resources Conservation Service's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Natural Resources Conservation Service's documentation. All 5 limits →

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

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Natural Resources Conservation Service

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Natural Resources Conservation Service Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Natural Resources Conservation Service API Rules

42 rules · 40 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

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

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

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Data

Data

Source (apis.yml)

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
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Agriculture
- Conservation
- Soil
- Natural Resources
- Federal-Government
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: '0.23'
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: Plans
  url: plans/natural-resources-conservation-service-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/natural-resources-conservation-service-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/natural-resources-conservation-service-finops.yml
- 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

Natural Resources Conservation Service API — frequently asked questions

Does Natural Resources Conservation Service have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Natural Resources Conservation Service, including NRCS Soil Data Access, Natural Resources Conservation Service Query API and Natural Resources Conservation Service SOAP API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Natural Resources Conservation Service API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Natural Resources Conservation Service, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Natural Resources Conservation Service API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Natural Resources Conservation Service, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Natural Resources Conservation Service API ready for AI agents?

Natural Resources Conservation Service has a Kin Score of 24.1 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 17.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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