<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="f27033" name="Cottonwood" 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="q44096NEA2" name="Bergen" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWH1" name="Bingham Lake" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07020009" name="Blue Earth" parent="h070200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEB1" name="Butterfield" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SEA4" name="Comfrey" parent="q45096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07020008" name="Cottonwood" parent="h070200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SEB4" name="Darfur" parent="q45096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07100001" name="Des Moines Headwaters" parent="h071000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWE2" name="Dundee" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NE" name="Fairmont" parent="q44096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWG1" name="Harder Lake" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWF2" name="Heron Lake" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWF1" name="Heron Lake NE" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWE1" name="Heron Lake NW" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SWG4" name="Jeffers" parent="q45096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SWF3" name="Lamberton" parent="q45096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07020007" name="Middle Minnesota" parent="h070200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEA1" name="Mountain Lake" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEB2" name="Mountain Lake SE" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SE" name="New Ulm" parent="q45096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SWG3" name="Sanborn" parent="q45096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SWH3" name="Sanborn NE" parent="q45096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SWH4" name="Sanborn SE" parent="q45096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SWF4" name="Storden" parent="q45096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SW" name="Tracy" parent="q45096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SWE3" name="Walnut Grove" parent="q45096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07020010" name="Watonwan" parent="h070200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096SWE4" name="Westbrook" parent="q45096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWG2" name="Wilder" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWH2" name="Windom" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NW" name="Worthington" parent="q44096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>