What you can ask
- “What does KS State Lands have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent KS State Lands records and put them in a table.”
- “What does KS State Lands cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
Kansas state-managed lands, USGS PAD-US ownership, KDWP wildlife areas + state parks + state fishing lakes, and Walk-in Hunting Area private-lands public-access tracts. 4 curated layers, 8K+ polygons. - searchProtectedAreas ⭐ 993 KDWP-curated polygons of all publicly-managed land - searchPublicLandsOwnership ⭐ 3,127 PAD-US polygons; easements via category=Easement - searchWildlifeAreas ⭐ 213 state wildlife areas + state parks + state fishing lakes - searchWalkInHuntingAreas ⭐ 3,736 WIHA tracts with COUNTY filter (Title Case) - getServiceInfo §0 spec drift: KS DASC Hub publishes no state-lands ownership/parcels/easements layer of its own — content lives on the AGOL tenant shared by KSDOT/KDWP/KSU. PAD-US KS has no county column. WIHA service renamed every season; latest stable hard-coded.
Connector ID ks-geoportal
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchProtectedAreas
readKS protected areas (~993). KDWP-curated publicly-managed land. Filter owner, manager, bbox.
Owner has 95 distinct values incl city/county/NGO. No county column.
searchPublicLandsOwnership
readKS PAD-US ownership (~3.1K). Filter category, mangType, mangName, pubAccess, minAcres, bbox.
category: Easement|Fee|Designation|Other|Proclamation. No county column.
searchWildlifeAreas
readKS wildlife areas (~213). State parks + WMAs + fishing lakes. Filter complex, accessRestriction.
COMPLEX = federal reservoir name (KDWPT on USACE shoreline).
searchWalkInHuntingAreas
readKS WIHA private-lands public-access (~3.7K). Filter county, contractStatus/Type, archeryShotOnly.
Has COUNTY (Title Case). Service renamed each season — latest hard-coded.
getServiceInfo
readSchema, record counts (live), enum values, and §0 probe notes for any of the 4 curated layers.
