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Wetlands (USFWS NWI)

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USFWS National Wetlands Inventory for Section 404 permit analysis.

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What you can ask

  • “What does Wetlands (USFWS NWI) have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
  • “Pull the most recent Wetlands (USFWS NWI) records and put them in a table.”
  • “What does Wetlands (USFWS NWI) cover, and how fresh is the data?”

About this source

USFWS National Wetlands Inventory data for Section 404 permit analysis. Wetland presence triggers Army Corps 404 permit requirements for oil & gas operations. CRITICAL USAGE RULES: 1. No authentication required - free government API 2. Use queryAtPoint() for specific location analysis 3. Use queryInBbox() for area-wide wetland mapping 4. Coordinates are latitude/longitude in WGS84

Connector ID wetlands

Provenance

PublisherU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory
Sourcehttps://fwspublicservices.wim.usgs.gov/wetlandsmapservice/rest/services/Wetlands/MapServer
Docshttps://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/web-mapping-services

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessFreshness not declared
GeographicUnited States
TemporalNot declared
AuthenticationNo credentials required

Caveats

  • ⚠ Screening data only; it is not a jurisdictional wetland delineation.

› Methods (3)

Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.

  • queryAtPoint

    read

    Query wetlands at a specific coordinate with buffer. Geometry only if includeGeometry is true.

    Required paramslatitudelongitude

  • queryInBbox

    read

    Query wetlands within a bounding box. Default page 50; geometry only if includeGeometry is true.

    Required paramsxminyminxmaxymax

  • getServiceInfo

    read

    Get NWI service metadata and available layers