<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="f20041" name="Dickinson" 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="q39098NWG1" name="Abilene" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWG2" name="Abilene SW" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SWG4" name="Buckeye" parent="q40098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWF3" name="Carlton" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWH1" name="Chapman" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SW" name="Clay Center" parent="q40098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NE" name="Council Grove" parent="q39098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWG3" name="Elmo" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWF4" name="Gypsum SE" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NEA3" name="Herington" parent="q39098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWF2" name="Holland" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWH3" name="Hope" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SWG3" name="Industry" parent="q40098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NEA1" name="Kansas Falls" parent="q39098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SWF3" name="Longford" parent="q40098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NEA4" name="Lost Springs" parent="q39098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10250017" name="Lower Republican" parent="h102500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10260008" name="Lower Smoky Hill" parent="h102600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SWF4" name="Manchester" parent="q40098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SE" name="Manhattan" parent="q40098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SEA3" name="Milford" parent="q40098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SEA4" name="Milford Dam" parent="q40098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p393" name="Milford Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWH2" name="Navarre" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWH4" name="Ramona" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NW" name="Salina" parent="q39098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10260015" name="Solomon" parent="h102600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWF1" name="Solomon" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWG4" name="Tampa" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SWH4" name="Upland" parent="q40098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SWH3" name="Wakefield" parent="q40098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NEA2" name="Woodbine" parent="q39098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>