Know your data sources.

Alabama Department of Environmental Management permits + UST + brownfields + Justice40 + complaints via gis.adem.alabama.gov. 5 curated layers from ADEM's 110+ MapServer catalog. - searchPermits ⭐ 83.7K AEPACS records across 42 categories (NPDES, MS4, air, UIC, scrap tire, CAFO, ...) - searchUSTSites ⭐ 10.3K UST facilities (FIPS or name) - searchBrownfields ⭐ 776 ADEM brownfield events - searchComplaints ⭐ 13K public complaints (AIR/COASTAL/LAND/WATER) - searchJustice40Tracts (655) §0: AEPACS uses ESRI_OID + duplicate object_id. UST has FIPS-only county. Brownfields County has DeKalb/De Kalb. CRS 26916; outSR=4326.

Alabama Forestry Commission — state forest property, aerial insect/disease/storm detection, wildfire incidents, fire towers. - searchPublicForests ⭐ 16 state forest + nursery polygons (Geneva 7.3K acres / Choccolocco 4.4K / Macon / Crawford / Hauss Nursery / Stauffer Seed Orchard) - searchAerialDetection ⭐ 26,238 aerial detection observations (SPB 18,863 / IPS 596 / Tornado 735 / EAB 13) - searchWildfires ⭐ 16,142 wildfire incidents with cause/region/agency - searchFireTowers 44 active fire tower points §0: Region values differ between aerial and wildfire layers — Aerial uses single-word (Northeast/Southwest), Wildfire uses two-word (North East/South West). Cause uses leading-digit codes; handler accepts "7", "7 - Arson", or "Arson".

Alabama State Oil & Gas Board well inventory, bottom-hole locations, offshore platforms, lease blocks, and field units via map.ogb.state.al.us. - searchWells ⭐ ~2.89K wells with permit/API/operator/status/wellType/county - searchBottomHoles ~409 lean BH points (no operator) - searchOffshorePlatforms ~35 with operator/type/structure/tract - getWellByPermit, getServiceInfo §0: build-plan said "layer 39" (MS data on the same MapServer); AL wells live at layer 28. WellStatus is a code, TypeDesc is the STATUS description; WellType = product code, StatusDesc = TYPE description. Mobile + Escambia + Baldwin = 81% of records. CRS 102100; outSR=4326.