<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="f20159" name="Rice" 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="q39100SEF2" name="Chase" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEF1" name="Chase NE" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEE1" name="Chase NW" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030004" name="Coon-Pickerel" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030011" name="Cow" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEH4" name="Crawford" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030010" name="Gar-Peace" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEG4" name="Geneseo" parent="q39100NE" 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="q39100NEE4" name="Holyrood" parent="q39100NE" 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="q39098SWA3" name="Hutchinson NW" parent="q39098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NWA4" name="Langley" parent="q39098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030012" name="Little Arkansas" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEH1" name="Little River" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NEF4" name="Lorraine" parent="q39100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10260008" name="Lower Smoky Hill" parent="h102600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEG2" name="Lyons" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEG1" name="Lyons NW" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEH2" name="Lyons SE" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10260006" name="Middle Smoky Hill" parent="h102600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEH3" name="Nickerson" parent="q39100SE" 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="q39100SEE2" name="Raymond" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NE" name="Russell" parent="q39100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098NW" name="Salina" parent="q39098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SEG3" name="Sterling" parent="q39100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098SWA1" name="Windom" parent="q39098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39098SWA2" name="Windom SW" parent="q39098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>