Surface Ownership Parcels, detailed (Feature Layer)

An area depicting ownership parcels of the surface estate. Each surface ownership parcel is tied to a particular legal transaction. The same individual or organization may currently own many parcels that may or may not have been acquired through the same legal transaction. Therefore, they are captured as separate entities rather than merged together. This is in contrast to Basic Ownership, in which the surface ownership parcels having the same owner are merged together. Basic Ownership provides the general user with the Forest Service versus non-Forest Service view of land ownership within National Forest boundaries. Surface Ownership provides the land status user with a current snapshot of ownership within National Forest boundaries. Metadata

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
bureauCode {005:96}
catalog_@context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
catalog_conformsTo https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
catalog_describedBy https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
identifier https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/maps/usfs::surface-ownership-parcels-detailed-feature-layer
issued 2017-03-27
landingPage https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/maps/usfs::surface-ownership-parcels-detailed-feature-layer
license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
metadata_type geospatial
modified 2020-02-26
old-spatial -151.0000,17.0000,-64.0000,62.0000
programCode {005:059}
publisher U.S. Forest Service
resource-type Dataset
source_datajson_identifier true
source_hash 340f44224a6e7a7c1dd387a021ee85c5bc55c47a
source_schema_version 1.1
spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-151.0000, 17.0000], [-151.0000, 62.0000], [-64.0000, 62.0000], [-64.0000, 17.0000], [-151.0000, 17.0000]]]}
theme {boundaries,planningCadastre,geospatial}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • alp-land-dataset
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • basic-ownership
  • ckan
  • estate
  • geo
  • geoss
  • land-status
  • lands-and-realty
  • national
  • nfs-lands
  • north-america
  • open-data
  • owner-name
  • parcels
  • planning-cadastre
  • united-states
  • usda-forest-service
isopen True
license_id cc-by
license_title Creative Commons Attribution
license_url http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
maintainer USFSEnterpriseContent
maintainer_email SM.FS.data@usda.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T11:59:30.441473
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T11:59:30.441478
notes An area depicting ownership parcels of the surface estate. Each surface ownership parcel is tied to a particular legal transaction. The same individual or organization may currently own many parcels that may or may not have been acquired through the same legal transaction. Therefore, they are captured as separate entities rather than merged together. This is in contrast to Basic Ownership, in which the surface ownership parcels having the same owner are merged together. Basic Ownership provides the general user with the Forest Service versus non-Forest Service view of land ownership within National Forest boundaries. Surface Ownership provides the land status user with a current snapshot of ownership within National Forest boundaries. <a href='https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/edw_resources/meta/S_USA.SurfaceOwnership.xml' target='_blank'>Metadata</a>
num_resources 6
num_tags 19
title Surface Ownership Parcels, detailed (Feature Layer)