<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="f20131" name="Nemaha" 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="q40098NEG2" name="Baileyville" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SE" name="Beatrice" parent="q41098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWA1" name="Bern" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10240008" name="Big Nemaha" parent="h102400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NE" name="Blue Rapids" parent="q40098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEG3" name="Centralia" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWB4" name="Circleville" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEH3" name="Corning" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10270103" name="Delaware" parent="h102701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SEH4" name="Du Bois" parent="q41098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEG4" name="Duluth" parent="q40098NE" 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="q40096NWA3" name="Goff" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEH4" name="Havensville" parent="q40098NE" 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="q41096SWA4" name="Humboldt SW" parent="q41096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10270205" name="Lower Big Blue" parent="h102702" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10270102" name="Middle Kansas" parent="h102701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWA2" name="Oneida" parent="q40096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SEG4" name="Pawnee City" parent="q41098SE" 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="q40098NEH1" name="Saint Benedict" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEH2" name="Seneca" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEG1" name="Seneca NW" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096NWA4" name="Soldier" parent="q40096NW" 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="q40096NWB3" name="Wetmore" 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>