<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="f20013" name="Brown" 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="q40096NW" name="Atchison" parent="q40096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41096SWF4" name="Big Lake" parent="q41096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10240008" name="Big Nemaha" parent="h102400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10270103" name="Delaware" parent="h102701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWF3" name="Denton" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWE3" name="Everest" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWC2" name="Fairview" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41096SW" name="Falls City" parent="q41096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41096SWD4" name="Falls City" parent="q41096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWD2" name="Hiawatha" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWF2" name="Highland" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWE1" name="Highland NW" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWD3" name="Horton" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWC3" name="Horton NW" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41096SWB4" name="Humboldt SE" parent="q41096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10240011" name="Independence-Sugar" parent="h102400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p926" name="Iowa Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="p933" name="Kickapoo Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWC1" name="Morrill" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWD1" name="Reserve" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWE2" name="Robinson" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41096SWE4" name="Rulo" parent="q41096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWB1" name="Sabetha" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1010" name="Sac and Fox Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q41096SWC4" name="Salem" parent="q41096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10240007" name="South Fork Big Nemaha" parent="h102400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10240005" name="Tarkio-Wolf" parent="h102400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWB3" name="Wetmore" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWF1" name="White Cloud" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWB2" name="Woodlawn" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>