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Nationwide protected-area and public-land ownership, management, access, and conservation context.

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About USGS Protected Areas & Public Lands

Search the USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States by a property point, small map area, state, owner, manager, or management-unit name. Results can include full map polygons and keep the published ownership, management, public-access, acreage, GAP status, and IUCN fields. PAD-US is useful for early land research, but it is not title, a boundary survey, or a time-specific legal determination.

Published byUSGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 4.1
CoversUnited States
UpdatesScheduled
CredentialsNone of your own
Used forprotected-areaspublic-landsland-ownershipland-managementconservationunited-states

⚠ PAD-US is an inventory and screening source, not title, a boundary survey, or a time-specific legal determination.

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Connect USGS Protected Areas & Public Lands to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP clients

Pick the tool your team uses for the exact setup steps.

  1. 1

    Open Claude settings

    Launch Claude, click the profile button (bottom left), and go to Settings.

  2. 2

    Access connectors

    Open the Connectors tab, scroll to the bottom, and click “Add custom connector”.

  3. 3

    Name your connector

    Enter any name you’d like for this connector.

  4. 4

    Get the connector URL

    Log in to ParcelOps, open the /mcp page, and copy the connector URL you want to use.

  5. 5

    Add the connector

    Paste the URL into the “Remote MCP server URL” box and click Add.

  6. 6

    Start using

    Your USGS Protected Areas & Public Lands connector is ready to use in Claude.