<descriptor thcode="1"><thesaurus thcode="1" name="Common geographic areas" scope="Names and identifiers of commonly-known geographic areas including oceans, continents, countries, states and provinces in North America, counties in the United States, USGS map quadrangles, and hydrologic units, nested and cross-referenced by overlap." creator="U.S. Geological Survey" rights="Public domain" edition="1.0" date="2002-03-21" codetype="alpha" prefix="geo" uri="http://www.usgs.gov/science/CommonGeographicAreas" tblname="geo" nonpref="geonp" relterm="geort" root_code="root" contact="pschweitzer"><category><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="30" name="ambiguous labels" parent="26" scope="A given preferred label may be used for more than one concept in the thesaurus. A concept must be specified using its unique identifier (code). This may occur in the names of places or people."/><term thcode="25" code="4" name="place" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate extent in space, typically by reference as the names of geographic areas known from information that is stored elsewhere."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="30" name="ambiguous labels" parent="26" scope="A given preferred label may be used for more than one concept in the thesaurus. A concept must be specified using its unique identifier (code). This may occur in the names of places or people."/><term thcode="25" code="4" name="place" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate extent in space, typically by reference as the names of geographic areas known from information that is stored elsewhere."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/></category><altlabel><altlabel>Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4</altlabel><altlabel>Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4</altlabel><altlabel>CommonGeographicAreas</altlabel><altlabel>CommonGeographicAreas</altlabel></altlabel></thesaurus><term thcode="1" code="f20009" name="Barton" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS20" name="Kansas" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS" name="United States" parent="fLD10" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD10" name="North America" parent="fLD" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD" name="Land" parent="root" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="root" name="Earth" scope="Common geographic areas focused on the US"/></bt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q39100SWH1" name="Albert" parent="q39100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SWH2" name="Albert SE" parent="q39100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEC3" name="Beaver" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEE1" name="Chase NW" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NED4" name="Claflin" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030004" name="Coon-Pickerel" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030011" name="Cow" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NED3" name="Dubuque" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SED2" name="Ellinwood" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SED1" name="Ellinwood NE" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEC1" name="Ellinwood NW" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEC2" name="Ellinwood SW" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEA3" name="Galatia" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SE" name="Great Bend" parent="q39100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEB2" name="Great Bend" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEB1" name="Great Bend NE" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NW" name="Hays" parent="q39100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEA1" name="Heizer" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEB4" name="Hoisington" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEE4" name="Holyrood" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEE3" name="Holyrood NW" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SW" name="Larned" parent="q39100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030008" name="Lower Walnut Creek" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10260006" name="Middle Smoky Hill" parent="h102600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEA4" name="Olmitz" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NWH4" name="Otis" parent="q39100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NWH3" name="Otis NE" parent="q39100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEA2" name="Pawnee Rock" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030009" name="Rattlesnake" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEE2" name="Raymond" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEC4" name="Redwing" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NE" name="Russell" parent="q39100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEB3" name="Susank" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>