<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="f26035" name="Clare" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS26" name="Michigan" 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="q44086NW" name="Big Rapids" parent="q44086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEC1" name="Browns Corners" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SW" name="Cadillac" parent="q45086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEB2" name="Clare" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NED2" name="Coleman" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NED1" name="Coleman NE" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SEB3" name="Cooperton" parent="q45086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SWH3" name="Falmouth" parent="q45086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SEB4" name="Harrison" parent="q45086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEB1" name="Hatton" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SE" name="Houghton Lake" parent="q45086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p927" name="Isabella Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWH2" name="Lake" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEA1" name="Lake George" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWH1" name="Lake NE" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEC2" name="Loomis" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SED3" name="Meredith" parent="q45086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SEC3" name="Meredith NW" parent="q45086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SEC4" name="Meredith SW" parent="q45086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NE" name="Midland" parent="q44086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SEA3" name="Moddersville" parent="q45086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04060102" name="Muskegon" parent="h040601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h04080202" name="Pine" parent="h040802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SEA4" name="Prestle Creek" parent="q45086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SED4" name="Skeels" parent="q45086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SWH4" name="Temple" parent="q45086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04080201" name="Tittabawassee" parent="h040802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEA2" name="Woods" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>