<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="f26081" name="Kent" 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="q43086NWE2" name="Alto" parent="q43086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NWD2" name="Caledonia" parent="q43086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWE4" name="Cannonsburg" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NWE1" name="Cascade" parent="q43086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWB3" name="Casnovia" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SW" name="Cedar Springs" parent="q44086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWD3" name="Cedar Springs" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWC4" name="Cedar Springs SW" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWE2" name="Coral" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NWC2" name="Cutlerville" parent="q43086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWE3" name="Evans" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NWF2" name="Freeport" parent="q43086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NW" name="Grand Rapids" parent="q43086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NWD1" name="Grand Rapids East" parent="q43086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NWC1" name="Grand Rapids West" parent="q43086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NWB1" name="Grandville" parent="q43086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWB2" name="Grant" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWF3" name="Greenville West" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NWB2" name="Hudsonville East" parent="q43086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04050003" name="Kalamazoo" parent="h040500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NWF1" name="Lowell" parent="q43086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04050006" name="Lower Grand" parent="h040500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWB4" name="Marne" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWD4" name="Rockford" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWD2" name="Sand Lake" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWC2" name="Sand Lake SW" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWF4" name="Smyrna" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWC3" name="Sparta" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04050007" name="Thornapple" parent="h040500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWF2" name="Trufant" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>