<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="f26117" name="Montcalm" 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="q44086SE" name="Alma" parent="q44086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWG4" name="Belding" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEA3" name="Butternut" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEB3" name="Carson City" parent="q44086SE" 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="q44086SWE2" name="Coral" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEA2" name="Crystal" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWH1" name="Edmore" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWG3" name="Greenville East" 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="q44086SWE1" name="Howard City" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEB4" name="Hubbardston" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWF1" name="Lakeview" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWG2" name="Langston" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04050006" name="Lower Grand" parent="h040500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p1219" name="Manistee National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="h04050005" name="Maple" parent="h040500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h04060102" name="Muskegon" parent="h040601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEA4" name="Palo" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04080202" name="Pine" parent="h040802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEB1" name="Riverdale" parent="q44086SE" 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="q44086SWH3" name="Sheridan" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWH4" name="Shiloh" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWG1" name="Six Lakes" 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="q44086SWH2" name="Stanton" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEB2" name="Sumner" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWD1" name="Tift Corner" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SWF2" name="Trufant" parent="q44086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEA1" name="Vestaburg" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>