KS State Lands

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Kansas state-managed lands, USGS PAD-US ownership, KDWP wildlife areas + state parks + state fishing lakes, and Walk-in Hunting Area private-lands public-access tracts. 4 curated layers covering 8K+ polygons. No credentials required.

What is KS State Lands?

Kansas state lands aggregated from the AGOL tenant shared by KSDOT/KDWP/KSU (services1.arcgis.com). Four curated layers: protected_areas/0 (~993 KDWP-curated all-publicly-managed-land polygons across 95 owners and 99 managers — Kansas Dept of Wildlife Parks Tourism, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, plus all state parks, county parks, city parks, NGO holdings — no county column); PADUS4_1VectorAnalysis_KS_Only/0 (~3,127 USGS PAD-US 4.1 ownership polygons — 5 Category values Designation 1840 / Fee 1041 / Easement 119 / Other 41 / Proclamation 86; 8 Mang_Type codes FED/STAT/LOC/PVT/NGO/TRIB/JNT/DIST; 21 Mang_Name codes BLM/FWS/USFS/NPS/USACE/USBR/SLB/SPR/SFW/CITY/CNTY/REG/NGO/PVT/TRIB/JNT/UNKL/OTHF/OTHS/NRCS/DOD; 4 Pub_Access codes OA Open / RA Restricted / UK Unknown / XA Closed; 4 GAP Status codes 1-4 — conservation easements via category=Easement, fee parcels via category=Fee); KDWPT_Wildlife_Areas/0 (~213 state wildlife areas + state parks + state fishing lakes, with COMPLEX = federal reservoir name when KDWPT manages USACE shoreline land at Tuttle Creek/Perry/Cheney/Milford/Kanopolis/Wilson/El Dorado/Glen Elder/Marais Des Cygnes; Access_Res values Yes/No/Archery Only/Archery+Shotshell Only/AS Only/Special Hunts Only); KDWP_WIHA_Update_9_10_25/0 (~3,736 Walk-in Hunting Area private-lands public-access tracts with COUNTY column Title Case + ACRES + CONTRACTSTATUS + CONTRACTTYPE + CONTRACTNAME + ISARCHERYSHOTONLY + YEARCONTRACTBEGINS/YEARCONTRACTENDS + 10 SPECIES columns + POINTOFCONTACT + LEGENDID). §0 surprises: KS DASC Hub (hub.kansasgis.org) DCAT feed has no state-lands ownership / parcels / conservation-easements layer of its own; the KS Adjutant General GIS hub publishes no standalone state-lands FeatureServer either (only TIGER military boundaries show up in DASC's catalog with 7 polygons led by McConnell AFB). PAD-US KS has no county column — use bbox/near for county-level filtering. WIHA service has been renamed every season for the past five years (2019_iWIHA → 2020_2021_WIHA → ... → KDWP_WIHA_Update_9_10_25); handler hard-codes the latest stable name and falls back to 2025_2026_WIHA_REVIEW if it disappears. KDWP_protected_areas Owner has 95 distinct values and Manager has 99 — broader than just state-trust land. Native CRS EPSG:102100 (Web Mercator); handler requests outSR=4326. Last verified live 2026-05-08.

Available Tools

searchProtectedAreas
KS Protected Areas (~993). KDWP-curated all-publicly-managed land polygons. Filter unitName, owner (95 distinct values incl Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, plus city/county/NGO), manager, bbox, near. No county column upstream — use bbox/near for county-level filtering.
searchPublicLandsOwnership
KS PAD-US 4.1 ownership (~3.1K polygons). Filter category (Designation/Fee/Easement/Other/Proclamation — conservation easements = Easement, fee parcels = Fee), mangType (FED/STAT/LOC/PVT/NGO/TRIB/JNT/DIST), mangName (BLM/FWS/USFS/NPS/USACE/USBR/SLB/SPR/SFW/CITY/CNTY/REG/NGO/PVT/TRIB), pubAccess (OA Open/RA Restricted/UK Unknown/XA Closed), minAcres, bbox, near.
searchWildlifeAreas
KS Wildlife Areas (~213). State wildlife areas + state parks + state fishing lakes. Filter name, complex (federal reservoir name for KDWPT-managed USACE shoreline — Tuttle Creek / Perry / Cheney / Milford / Kanopolis / Wilson / El Dorado / Glen Elder), mgtUnit, accessRestriction (Yes/No/Archery Only/Archery+Shotshell Only/Special Hunts Only), huntAccess, bbox, near.
searchWalkInHuntingAreas
KS Walk-in Hunting Areas (~3.7K). Private-lands public-access tracts with COUNTY (Title Case) + ACRES + 10 SPECIES columns. Filter county, contractStatus, contractType, contractName, archeryShotOnly, yearActiveAtLeast, bbox, near.
getServiceInfo
Schema, record counts (live), max-page caps, enum values for every filter, and §0 probe notes for any of the 4 curated layers.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use — no setup needed.

Quick Setup Guide

Follow these steps to connect your AI agents to this connector

Open /mcp and enable KS State Lands with the toggle — no credentials needed.

Call searchPublicLandsOwnership with category: 'Easement' to list all 119 Kansas conservation easements, or searchWalkInHuntingAreas with county: 'Sedgwick' for that county's Walk-in Hunting tracts.

Connect to Your AI Assistant

Choose your AI assistant below for specific setup instructions

Follow these steps to connect KS State Lands to Claude:

Step 1: Open Claude Settings

Launch Claude → Click the profile button (bottom left) → Navigate to Settings

Step 2: Access Connectors

Scroll down to the Connectors tab → Navigate to the bottom → Click “Add Custom Connector”

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the Connector

Paste the URL in the “Remote MCP Server URL” text box → Click Add

Step 6: Start Using

Your connector is now ready to use in Claude

Follow these steps to connect KS State Lands to ChatGPT:

Step 1: Enable Developer Mode

Go to Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Enable Developer mode

Step 2: Create New Connector

Go back to Connectors page → Click “Create” (top right)

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector (descriptions are optional)

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the URL

Paste the URL in the “MCP Server URL” text box

Step 6: Set Authentication

Click the authentication dropdown → Select “No authentication” (PatchOps handles authentication internally)

Step 7: Create the Connector

Click “I understand and want to continue” checkbox → Press Create

Step 8: Using the Connector

Start a new chat → Click the + button (left of text box) → Open dropdown → Hover over three dots labeled “More” → Select your connector

Instructions for connecting KS State Lands to GitHub Copilot:

Coming Soon

Detailed setup instructions for GitHub Copilot will be added here.

For other MCP-compatible platforms:

Step 1: Get the Connector URL

Step 2: Add to Configuration

Add this configuration to your MCP settings file. Replace the URL with your specific connector URL from the /mcp page:

"KS State Lands-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}

Example Configuration

Here’s an example using PatchOps MCP:

"PatchOps-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}