<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="f20155" name="Reno" 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="q39100SEF3" name="Alden" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEE3" name="Alden NW" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEF4" name="Alden SE" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEG1" name="Arlington" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098SWB3" name="Buhler" parent="q39098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098SWC4" name="Burrton" parent="q39098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38098NWA2" name="Castleton" parent="q38098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38098NWB3" name="Cheney" parent="q38098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p677" name="Cheney Reservoir" parent="p16" scope="Bureau of Reclamation"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030011" name="Cow" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEE3" name="Cunningham" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38098NWA1" name="Elmer" parent="q38098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030010" name="Gar-Peace" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38098NWC3" name="Garden Plain" parent="q38098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SE" name="Great Bend" parent="q39100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098SWC3" name="Halstead NW" parent="q39098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38098NWB1" name="Haven" parent="q38098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38098NWB2" name="Haven SE" parent="q38098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098SW" name="Hutchinson" parent="q39098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098SWA4" name="Hutchinson" parent="q39098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098SWA3" name="Hutchinson NW" parent="q39098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098SWB4" name="Hutchinson SE" parent="q39098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEH3" name="Kingman" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEG3" name="Kingman NW" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEF2" name="Langdon" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030012" name="Little Arkansas" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEE4" name="Little Salt Marsh" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030013" name="Middle Arkansas-Slate" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38098NWC2" name="Mount Hope" parent="q38098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEH3" name="Nickerson" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030014" name="North Fork Ninnescah" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEH1" name="Partridge" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38098NWC1" name="Patterson" parent="q38098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEF3" name="Penalosa" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEF1" name="Plevna" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NE" name="Pratt" parent="q38100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEH2" name="Pretty Prairie" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEG2" name="Pretty Prairie SW" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1924" name="Quivira National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030009" name="Rattlesnake" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030015" name="South Fork Ninnescah" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEG3" name="Sterling" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEG4" name="Sterling SW" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEE1" name="Sylvia" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38100NEE2" name="Turon" parent="q38100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38098NWA3" name="Waterloo" parent="q38098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38098NW" name="Wichita" parent="q38098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEH4" name="Yaggy" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>