NLCD 2021 Point Land Cover API and MCP server

API access

Your AI client reaches NLCD 2021 Point Land Cover through one ParcelOps MCP endpoint, so there is no separate key to hold for it and no per-source client to write. Reaching it takes no credentials of your own.

What this source cannot tell you

• ⚠ Anything outside Contiguous United States within the published WMS bounding box. A request past that edge comes back empty rather than approximated.
• ⚠ Which years it spans, because the covered period is not declared.
• ⚠ Anything USGS / MRLC National Land Cover Database 2021 does not publish. ParcelOps returns this source as it stands and never fills a blank field from a different one.
• ⚠ The JSON response exposes PALETTE_INDEX, which is the NLCD class value on this layer; the label comes from that layer's own value colormap and holds for the 2021 lower-48 product only.
• ⚠ One approximately 30 m raster-pixel sample is not parcel overlap, area, change, zoning, wetlands, crop suitability, or developability.
• ⚠ Newer downloadable Annual NLCD products are not claimed as layers in this WMS.

Methods (2)

A method is one call your agent can make against this source.

• getLandCoverAtPoint

  read

  Sample one point from the verified NLCD 2021 lower-48 WMS layer.

  What you must providelatitudelongitude

  Records returnedland-cover-raster-pixel

  How to get more resultsnone

  FreshnessStatic (source-level)
  Input schema

  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "latitude": {
        "type": "number",
        "minimum": 21.742250095963353,
        "maximum": 52.87726396463256
      },
      "longitude": {
        "type": "number",
        "minimum": -130.23282801589895,
        "maximum": -63.6719773760062
      },
      "vintage": {
        "type": "integer",
        "enum": [
          2021
        ]
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "latitude",
      "longitude"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
  }

  • ⚠ Returns one raster value as PALETTE_INDEX plus the NLCD 2021 lower-48 class code and label for it; no parcel area, change, or developability inference.

• getServiceInfo

  read

  Return the exact WMS layer, coverage, access constraints, resolution, and excluded claims.

  FreshnessStatic (source-level)
  Input schema

  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {},
    "required": [],
    "additionalProperties": false
  }

Where this source is used

• Land research

  Parcel records, ground conditions, and what reaches the property line, for raw and rural land.

• Data center siting

  Power, water, transport, airspace, and hazard screening for a site before anyone signs anything.

• Commercial real estate

  Parcel and assessment records, building programs, and the entity on the other side of the deal.

• Residential real estate

  The parcel record, the housing programs that touch an address, and the conditions a buyer asks about.

• Real estate law

  Federal rule text, rulemaking dockets, party records, and the property facts a filing has to state.

• Realtors and brokerages

  The facts behind a listing, the programs a buyer may qualify for, and your own files in the same place.

• Is this property in a wildfire risk area?
• What are the soils under this site?