<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="f26063" name="Huron" 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="q44084NEA2" name="Bad Axe East" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEB2" name="Bad Axe SE" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWH2" name="Bad Axe West" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NW" name="Bay City" parent="q44084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWF2" name="Bay Port East" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWE2" name="Bay Port West" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04080104" name="Birch-Willow" parent="h040801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWF1" name="Caseville" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04080205" name="Cass" parent="h040802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45084SWE4" name="Charity Island" parent="q45084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWG2" name="Elkton" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NED3" name="Forestville" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWG3" name="Gagetown" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NE" name="Harbor Beach" parent="q44084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEC2" name="Harbor Beach" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NED2" name="Harbor Beach Oe E" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45084SEB4" name="Huron City" parent="q45084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEA1" name="Kinde East" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWH1" name="Kinde West" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04080300" name="Lake Huron" parent="h040803" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEB3" name="Minden City" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWH3" name="New Greenleaf" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWF3" name="Owendale" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04080103" name="Pigeon-Wiscoggin" parent="h040801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45084SE" name="Pointe Aux Barques" parent="q45084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45084SEA4" name="Port Austin East" parent="q45084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45084SWH4" name="Port Austin West" parent="q45084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEC1" name="Port Hope" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEB1" name="Redman" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWG1" name="Rush Lake" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEC3" name="Ruth" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWE1" name="Sand Point" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWE3" name="Sebewaing" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45084SW" name="Tawas City" parent="q45084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEA3" name="Ubly" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>