What you can ask
- “What does SD Geological Survey & Oil/Gas (DANR) have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent SD Geological Survey & Oil/Gas (DANR) records and put them in a table.”
- “What does SD Geological Survey & Oil/Gas (DANR) cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
South Dakota Geological Survey / Dept. of Agriculture & Natural Resources (DANR) oil & gas program, via the University of South Dakota ArcGIS Server (gis.usd.edu). Wells & permits, oil & gas field / spacing-unit polygons, Board of Minerals & Environment orders, and the statewide lithologic (geologic) log index (~35K) — all as map-ready WGS84 GeoJSON. Covers the Williston Basin fringe in NW South Dakota (Harding / Butte). No auth.
Connector ID sd-sdgs
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchWells
readSouth Dakota oil and gas wells and permits (~2,132) as GeoJSON.
EntitieswellFilter county, operator, name, status, type, API, or bbox; dates are epoch-ms.
getOilAndGasFields
readOil & gas field / spacing-unit polygons (34) as GeoJSON
EntitiesfieldFilter name or bbox; returns field name, oil/gas spacing, and order.
getBoardOrders
readSD Board of Minerals & Environment orders (265) as GeoJSON
EntitiesrecordFilter order, field, applicant, type, year, or bbox.
searchLogs
readStatewide SDGS lithologic (geologic) log index (~35,475) as GeoJSON
EntitiesrecordFilter county, legal location, aquifer, or bbox; large layer, so constrain it.
getServiceInfo
readStatic API overview — layers, GeoJSON/WGS84 output, descriptive status strings, epoch-ms dates
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