<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="f20033" name="Comanche" 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="q38100SWH1" name="Belvidere" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37100NW" name="Buffalo" parent="q37100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37100NWD1" name="Buffalo NE" parent="q37100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWF4" name="Buttermilk" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWF2" name="Coldwater" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWF1" name="Coldwater NE" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWE1" name="East Kiowa Creek North" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWE2" name="East Kiowa Creek South" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWH4" name="Fancy Canyon" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWH3" name="Indian Creek" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWG1" name="Iron Mountain" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWD2" name="Lexington" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11050001" name="Lower Cimarron-Eagle Chief" parent="h110500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h11060003" name="Medicine Lodge" parent="h110600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWG3" name="Nescatunga Creek North" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWG4" name="Nescatunga Creek South" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SW" name="Protection" parent="q38100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWE3" name="Protection" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWF3" name="Protection NE" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWE4" name="Protection SW" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37100NWE1" name="Selman NW" parent="q37100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWD3" name="Sugarloaf" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWD4" name="Trout Creek" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWD1" name="Turkey Creek" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11040008" name="Upper Cimarron-Bluff" parent="h110400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h11060002" name="Upper Salt Fork Arkansas" parent="h110600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWG2" name="Wilmore" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100SWH2" name="Wilmore SE" parent="q38100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>