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USACE National Inventory of Dams

The nationwide CSV fetched on 2026-11-01 contained 92,692 dams across 52 state or territory values and stated that the data were last updated on 2026-10-30. The inventory covers qualifying dams in the United States and its territories; the provider does not state a fixed refresh interval.

Open nid.sec.usace.army.mil
Signal Scoredraft model
86
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
Provider terms · terms linked
13
Evidence
5 source links checked
20
Freshness
verified 2026-11-01
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage
13

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Access
none
Free tier
Public REST endpoints and national CSV or GeoPackage downloads need no key. The checked national CSV was about 69 MB and contained 92,692 records.
Rate limits
Not stated
Licence
Provider termsterms
Licence note
USACE describes the NID API as public and says its services are available for integration into applications. The checked pages do not provide a separate open-data licence or a broad public-domain statement, and the site carries an informational-use disclaimer.
Attribution
No attribution requirement recorded.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-01

  1. 01nid.sec.usace.army.mil/nid/
  2. 02nid.sec.usace.army.mil/api/developer
  3. 03nid.sec.usace.army.mil/api/developer/json
  4. 04nid.sec.usace.army.mil/api/nation/csv
  5. 05nid.sec.usace.army.mil/api/nation/gpkg

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Request · get_entry
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  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "usace-national-inventory-of-dams"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
{
  "name": "USACE National Inventory of Dams",
  "slug": "usace-national-inventory-of-dams",
  "domain": "Transport & Shipping",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Free",
  "auth": "none",
  "rateLimits": "Not stated",
  "license": "Provider terms",
  "licenseUrl": "https://nid.sec.usace.army.mil/api/developer",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-01",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://nid.sec.usace.army.mil/nid/",
    "https://nid.sec.usace.army.mil/api/developer",
    "https://nid.sec.usace.army.mil/api/developer/json",
    "https://nid.sec.usace.army.mil/api/nation/csv",
    "https://nid.sec.usace.army.mil/api/nation/gpkg"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    "transport-shipping",
    "geospatial",
    "risk",
    "infrastructure",
    "historical-data"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://nid.sec.usace.army.mil/nid/"
}

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