<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="f27023" name="Chippewa" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS27" name="Minnesota" 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="q46098SEH3" name="Appleton" parent="q46098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NWD1" name="Asbury" parent="q45096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWB3" name="Big Bend City" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098SEH4" name="Cerro Gordo" parent="q46098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07020005" name="Chippewa" parent="h070200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NWF1" name="Clara City" parent="q45096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NWB1" name="Clarkfield NE" parent="q45096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWD4" name="Gracelock" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWD3" name="Gracelock NE" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWC3" name="Gracelock NW" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWC4" name="Gracelock SW" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NWD2" name="Granite Falls" parent="q45096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07020004" name="Hawk-Yellow Medicine" parent="h070200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NWC2" name="Hazel Run" parent="q45096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWF3" name="Kerkhoven" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWF4" name="Kerkhoven SE" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWE4" name="Kerkhoven SW" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p349" name="Lac qui Parle" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NWE1" name="Maynard" parent="q45096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWA4" name="Milan" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWA3" name="Milan NW" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098SE" name="Milbank" parent="q46098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NWE2" name="Minnesota Falls" parent="q45096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NW" name="Montevideo" parent="q45096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NWC1" name="Montevideo" parent="q45096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWE3" name="Murdock" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWG3" name="Pennock" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NWG1" name="Prinsburg" parent="q45096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWG4" name="Raymond" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07020001" name="Upper Minnesota" parent="h070200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p1067" name="Upper Sioux Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SWB4" name="Watson" parent="q46096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SW" name="Willmar" parent="q46096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>