<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="f20081" name="Haskell" 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="h11030003" name="Arkansas-Dodge City" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102NEC4" name="Copeland" parent="q38102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102NEC3" name="Copeland NW" parent="q38102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11040007" name="Crooked" parent="h110400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102NE" name="Dodge City" parent="q38102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102NWH3" name="Hickok NE" parent="q38102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102NWH4" name="Hickok SE" parent="q38102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102SW" name="Hugoton" parent="q38102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102SE" name="Liberal" parent="q38102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11040003" name="North Fork Cimarron" parent="h110400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102NEA4" name="North of Satanta" parent="q38102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102SEC1" name="Plains NW" parent="q38102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102SWH1" name="Ryus" parent="q38102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102SEA1" name="Satanta" parent="q38102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102SEB1" name="Sublette" parent="q38102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102NW" name="Ulysses" parent="q38102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11040006" name="Upper Cimarron-Liberal" parent="h110400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102NEB4" name="West of Copeland" parent="q38102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102NEA3" name="West of Wild Horse Lake" parent="q38102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38102NEB3" name="Wild Horse Lake" parent="q38102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>