<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="f20045" name="Douglas" 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="q39096NWG2" name="Baldwin City" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWE1" name="Clinton" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p276" name="Clinton Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWH2" name="Edgerton" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWH1" name="Eudora" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWE2" name="Globe" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SWD4" name="Grantville" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NW" name="Lawrence" parent="q39096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWG1" name="Lawrence East" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWF1" name="Lawrence West" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWG3" name="Le Loup" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWF2" name="Lone Star" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10270104" name="Lower Kansas" parent="h102701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10290102" name="Lower Marais Des Cygnes" parent="h102901" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10270102" name="Middle Kansas" parent="h102701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SWG4" name="Midland" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWE3" name="Ottawa NW" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWF3" name="Ottawa North" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWD2" name="Overbrook" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SWE4" name="Perry" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWD1" name="Richland" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SW" name="Topeka" parent="q40096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10290101" name="Upper Marais Des Cygnes" parent="h102901" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWD3" name="Vassar" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWH3" name="Wellsville" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SWF4" name="Williamstown" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>