<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="f20177" name="Shawnee" 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="q39096NWB1" name="Auburn" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWB2" name="Burlingame" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWC2" name="Carbondale" 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="q39096NWA1" name="Dover" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SWC3" name="Elmont" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p123" name="Forbes Air Force Base" parent="p25" scope="Air Force"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SWD4" name="Grantville" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SWB3" name="Grove" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWA2" name="Harveyville" parent="q39096NW" 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="h10270104" name="Lower Kansas" parent="h102701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SE" name="Manhattan" parent="q40098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SEH4" name="Maple Hill" parent="q40098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SWD3" name="Meriden" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10270102" name="Middle Kansas" parent="h102701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWD2" name="Overbrook" parent="q39096NW" 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="q40096SWA3" name="Rossville" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SEH3" name="Saint Marys" parent="q40098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SWB4" name="Silver Lake" parent="q40096SW" 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="q40096SWC4" name="Topeka" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39096NWC1" name="Wakarusa" parent="q39096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SWA4" name="Willard" parent="q40096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>