Kansas location data
Isopleth answers questions about any coordinate or street address in Kansas with 351 public-data fields from 95 sources: flood and wildfire risk, soils and slope, the power grid, water and roads, climate, and county economics. Each value carries its source, license and vintage. Use it from the REST API or through the MCP server in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other assistants.
Parcel coverage in Kansas
Parcel records: not offered in Kansas. No free statewide parcel layer with clear reuse terms. Every point field on this page still works at any coordinate in Kansas; see parcel coverage for the 35 states plus DC we cover.
Sample values in Kansas
What our API returned at the Census Bureau's interior point of Kansas's 3 largest counties by land area, computed 2026-10-29. One point is not a whole county: values can change within a few hundred meters, so look up your own site. "No data" means the dataset has nothing at that point.
| field | Butler County | Finney County | Reno County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazards | |||
| FEMA flood zone | X | no data | X |
| Inside a mapped floodplain | No | No | No |
| Wildfire, annual frequency | 0.0016 events a year | 0.00037 events a year | 0.0017 events a year |
| Tornado, annual frequency | 0.080 events a year | 1.2 events a year | 0.32 events a year |
| Hail, annual frequency | 9.4 events a year | 10 events a year | 11 events a year |
| Current drought category | D1 | D0 | D1 |
| On a mapped wetland | No | No | No |
| Nearest mapped wetland | 84 m | no data | 227 m |
| Land | |||
| Elevation | 408 m (1,338 ft) | 882 m (2,895 ft) | 485 m (1,591 ft) |
| Slope | 2.8° | 0.1° | 1.0° |
| Soil drainage | Well drained | Well drained | Well drained |
| Soil hydrologic group | D | C | B |
| Farmland class | Statewide importance | Prime if conditions met | Prime |
| Land use | Other | Agriculture | Agriculture |
| Crop or cover (CDL) | Grass/Pasture | Winter Wheat | Corn |
| Dominant crop, 5 years | no data | Winter Wheat | Corn |
| Tree canopy | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| On protected land (PAD-US) | No | No | No |
| Surface manager | Private or unknown | Private or unknown | Private or unknown |
| Climate & energy | |||
| Annual precipitation (normal) | 946 mm (37 in) | 502 mm (20 in) | 772 mm (30 in) |
| Days above 32 °C a year | 53 days | 70 days | 65 days |
| Solar resource (GHI) | 4.68 kWh/m²/day | 5.04 kWh/m²/day | 4.76 kWh/m²/day |
| Mean wind speed at 100 m | 8.2 m/s | 8.2 m/s | 8.0 m/s |
| Wind capacity factor | 45% | 43% | 44% |
| Infrastructure | |||
| Nearest transmission line | 2.0 km (1.2 mi) | no data | 777 m |
| Nearest substation (69 kV+) | 4.0 km (2.5 mi) | 10.2 km (6.4 mi) | 12.8 km (7.9 mi) |
| Nearest gas pipeline | 4.7 km (2.9 mi) | 1.6 km (1.0 mi) | 58 m |
| Electric utility | BUTLER RURAL EL COOP ASSN, INC - (KS) | LANE-SCOTT ELECTRIC COOP, INC | SEDGWICK COUNTY EL COOP ASSN INC |
| In a public water service area | Yes | No | No |
| Depth to water, nearest monitored well | 14.1 m (46 ft) | 39.8 m (130 ft) | 6.1 m (20 ft) |
| Nearest major road | 437 m | 1.1 km (0.7 mi) | 1.9 km (1.2 mi) |
| Community | |||
| Nearest fire station | 5.1 km (3.2 mi) | 12.0 km (7.4 mi) | 7.3 km (4.5 mi) |
| Nearest hospital | 5.2 km (3.3 mi) | 14.3 km (8.9 mi) | 20.7 km (12.9 mi) |
| Nearest school | 4.6 km (2.8 mi) | 8.1 km (5.0 mi) | 10.6 km (6.6 mi) |
| In an Opportunity Zone | No | No | No |
County pages
- Butler County 1,430 sq mi of land
- Finney County 1,302 sq mi of land
- Reno County 1,255 sq mi of land
Datasets that returned data at these points
| source | fields |
|---|---|
BLM_SMA Bureau of Land Management | surface_management_agency |
EIA_ATLAS U.S. Energy Information Administration | nearest_gas_pipeline_distance_m, nearest_transmission_line_distance_m |
EIA_POWER U.S. Energy Information Administration | electric_utility_service_territory, nearest_substation_distance_m |
EPA_CWS_SERVICE_AREAS U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | within_water_service_area |
FEMA_NFHL Federal Emergency Management Agency | nfhl_flood_zone, within_floodplain_polygon |
FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agency | hail_annual_frequency, tornado_annual_frequency, wildfire_annual_frequency |
HUD_OPPORTUNITY_ZONES U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | in_opportunity_zone |
NOAA_NCEI_NCLIMGRID_DAILY National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | days_above_32c_annual_count |
NOAA_NCEI_NORMALS_GRIDDED National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | annual_precipitation_normal_mm |
NREL_REV_LANDBASED_WIND_SC_2024 NREL reV supply curves, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI) | wind_capacity_factor_pct |
NREL_SOLAR_RESOURCE_V1 NREL Solar Resource Data (NSRDB) | ghi_annual_kwh_m2_day |
NREL_WIND_TOOLKIT NREL WIND Toolkit (Draxl et al., 2015) | mean_wind_speed_100m_ms |
OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundation | nearest_fire_station_distance_m, nearest_hospital_distance_m, nearest_school_distance_m |
OVERTURE_TRANSPORTATION © Overture Maps Foundation, © OpenStreetMap contributors | nearest_major_road_distance_m |
PAD_US USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) | intersects_protected_area |
USDA_CDL U.S. Department of Agriculture | cdl_class, dominant_crop_5y |
USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculture | prime_farmland_classification, soil_drainage_class, soil_hydrologic_group |
USDM_CURRENT The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Map courtesy of NDMC. | drought_category |
USFS_LCMS USDA Forest Service | land_use_class |
USFS_NLCD_TCC USDA Forest Service | tree_canopy_pct |
USFWS_NWI U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | intersects_wetland, nearest_wetland_distance_m |
USGS_3DEP_COG U.S. Geological Survey | elevation, slope_degrees |
USGS_NWIS_OGC U.S. Geological Survey | nearest_groundwater_well_depth_to_water_m |
These are only the sources behind the fields sampled here. The full list is on Sources & licenses and every field is in the field catalog.
What people use it for in Kansas
- Land buyers: screen a lot for flood zone, wetlands, slope, soils, road and water access before a site visit. Buyers who want it written up can order a $29 report on Check the Land, which is built on Isopleth.
- Solar, wind and data-center siting: distance to transmission and substations, solar and wind resource, protected land.
- Insurance and lending: hazard frequencies and floodplain status for every address in a book.
- Real estate and research: county income, growth and house-price trends next to on-the-ground facts.
See use cases for prompts and the exact fields.
Try it
curl https://api.isopleth.dev/v1/fetch -H "Authorization: Bearer $ISOPLETH_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"lat": 37.773649, "lng": -96.83884, "preset": "site_selection"}'
Or ask your assistant: “Using Isopleth, what are the flood zone, slope and soil drainage at 37.7736, -96.8388?”
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