<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="f26043" name="Dickinson" 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="q47088SWC4" name="Alfred" parent="q47088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46088NWA1" name="Carney Lake" parent="q46088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04030109" name="Cedar-Ford" parent="h040301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47090SEH3" name="Channing" parent="q47090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46088NWC3" name="Cunard" parent="q46088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04030110" name="Escanaba" parent="h040301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q46088NW" name="Escanaba" parent="q46088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46088NWB3" name="Faithorn" parent="q46088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46088NWB1" name="Felch" parent="q46088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46088NWC1" name="Foster City" parent="q46088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47088SW" name="Gwinn" parent="q47088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46088NWD1" name="Helps" parent="q46088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46090NE" name="Iron Mountain" parent="q46090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46090NEH2" name="Iron Mountain" parent="q46090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46090NEG2" name="Iron Mountain SW" parent="q46090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47090SE" name="Iron River" parent="q47090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04030108" name="Menominee" parent="h040301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h04030107" name="Michigamme" parent="h040301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47088SWD4" name="Northland" parent="q47088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47088SWD3" name="Northland NE" parent="q47088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47088SWC3" name="Northland NW" parent="q47088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46088NWA2" name="Norway" parent="q46088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47088SWB4" name="Ralph" parent="q47088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47088SWB3" name="Ralph NE" parent="q47088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47088SWA3" name="Ralph NW" parent="q47088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47088SWA4" name="Ralph SW" parent="q47088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46090NEH1" name="Randville" parent="q46090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47090SEH4" name="Sagola" parent="q47090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46088NWB2" name="Vulcan" parent="q46088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46088NWC2" name="Waucedah" parent="q46088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>