USGS Site Service

Searches and retrieves metadata for millions of USGS hydrologic data collection sites including streams, springs, wells, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, and glaciers. Filtering options include site number, state, HUC, bounding box, county, site type, and parameter codes. Outputs include tab-delimited, KML, and GeoJSON.

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: usgs-water:site-service
name: USGS Site Service
description: Searches and retrieves metadata for millions of USGS hydrologic data collection sites including
  streams, springs, wells, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, and glaciers. Filtering options include site
  number, state, HUC, bounding box, county, site type, and parameter codes. Outputs include tab-delimited,
  KML, and GeoJSON.
humanURL: https://waterservices.usgs.gov/docs/site-service/site-service-details/
baseURL: https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/
tags:
- Site Metadata
- Monitoring Locations
- Geospatial
- NWIS
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://waterservices.usgs.gov/docs/site-service/site-service-details/
- type: Website
  url: https://waterservices.usgs.gov/