What you can ask
- “What does IL State Geological Survey have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent IL State Geological Survey records and put them in a table.”
- “What does IL State Geological Survey cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) ILOIL well registry plus oil/gas/storage field polygons and waterflood-area boundaries via maps.isgs.illinois.edu. - searchWells ⭐ ~207K wells with API, status code+text, operator, formation, depth - searchOilGasFields ⭐ ~1K canonical 2024 unified oil + gas + gas-storage polygons (or ~550 legacy) - getWellByApi single well lookup, searchWaterfloodAreas, getServiceInfo §0 spec drift: brief listed Oil_Gas_GasStor_Fields_2023 — that service is 404. Canonical service is _2024. Wells layer is at index 8 of Wells/MapServer (NOT 0). STATUS column has 100+ codes; STATUS_TEXT has 100+ descriptive variants. Legacy service uses upper-snake fields, 2024 uses camelCase. Native CRS 102100; outSR=4326.
Connector ID il-isgs
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchWells
readIllinois oil and gas wells (~207K). Filter operator, status (code or text), formation, depth, bbox.
EntitieswellSTATUS code (OIL/OILP/DAP) and STATUS_TEXT descriptive both filterable.
searchOilGasFields
readField boundary polygons. Filter fieldName, fieldType (OIL/GAS/GAS STORAGE), bbox.
EntitiesfieldDefault ~1K; legacy ~550. Max 5/page; records omit rings; GeoJSON generalized.
getWellByApi
readSingle well lookup by API_NUMBER (12-digit).
Required paramsapiEntitieswellsearchWaterfloodAreas
readWaterflood (secondary-recovery) area boundary polygons.
EntitiesrecordgetServiceInfo
readSchema, record counts, and enum values for all 4 services (IL State Geological Survey).
Entitiesmetadata
