<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="f27027" name="Clay" 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" 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEE2" name="Downer" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020108" name="Eastern Wild Rice" parent="h090201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020107" name="Elm-Marsh" parent="h090201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NE" name="Fargo" parent="q47098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEB1" name="Fargo North" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEB2" name="Fargo South" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SED4" name="Felton" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEC3" name="Felton NW" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEC4" name="Felton SW" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEG3" name="Flom" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEB4" name="Georgetown" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NED1" name="Glyndon North" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NED2" name="Glyndon South" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEF1" name="Hawley" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEE1" name="Hawley NW" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEF2" name="Hawley SE" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEB3" name="Hickson" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEG2" name="Lake Park SW" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020204" name="Lower Sheyenne" parent="h090202" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020103" name="Otter Tail" parent="h090201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEB3" name="Perley" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEG3" name="Rollag" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEC2" name="Sabin" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEF3" name="Syre" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEG4" name="Tilde Lake" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEF4" name="Ulen" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEE3" name="Ulen NW" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEE4" name="Ulen SW" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020104" name="Upper Red" parent="h090201" scope="hydrologic unit"/></rt></descriptor>