Usda Soil

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USDA-NRCS Soil Data Access over SSURGO, the field-surveyed US soil map — the soil at any US coordinate, the named soil series inside a map unit with their taxonomy, drainage, slope and depth horizons, and SQL over the full survey schema.

3tools

0msauth

free tier50 calls/day

Tools

usda_soil_mapunit_at_point

The USDA-NRCS SSURGO soil map unit at one latitude/longitude in the United States — map unit key (mukey), symbol, the official map unit name ("Terril-Urban land complex, 2 to 5 percent slopes"), its a

No parameters required.

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Response

usda_soil_components

The soil components inside one USDA SSURGO map unit — each named soil series with its percentage of the unit, official taxonomic class, drainage class, slope range, hydrologic soil group, land capabil

No parameters required.

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Response

usda_soil_query

Run a read-only SQL SELECT against the USDA-NRCS Soil Data Access database (SSURGO) — the full US soil survey schema: legend, mapunit, component, chorizon, cointerp, plus the SDA_ spatial helper funct

No parameters required.

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Response

Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/usda-soil/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Call a tool

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/usda-soil/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"usda_soil_mapunit_at_point","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("usda_soil_mapunit_at_point", {});

ask_pipeworx

// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("usda-nrcs soil data access over ssurgo, the field-surveyed us soil map — the soil at any us coordinate, the named soil series inside a map unit with their taxonomy, drainage, slope and depth horizons, and sql over the full survey schema");

Related packs

Other Pipeworx packs in the same categories (Biology, Agriculture, Geography):

MCP Config

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-usda-soil": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/usda-soil/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}