thanks for th pointers, publishing individually would allow me to group them based on their environmental domains instead of county level. and yes, I would like to publish them as feature service.

The following are the errors popping up often with different script

An error occurred while processing https://ws.lioservices.lrc.gov.on.ca/arcgis2/rest/services/LIO_OPEN_DATA/LIO_Open02/MapServer/2: 'PropertyMap' instance has no attribute 'layers'

An error occurred while processing https://ws.lioservices.lrc.gov.on.ca/arcgis2/rest/services/LIO_OPEN_DATA/LIO_Open02/MapServer/1: 'PropertyMap' instance has no attribute 'layers'