<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="f27063" name="Jackson" 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="q44096NEB3" name="Alpha" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEA2" name="Bergen" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07020009" name="Blue Earth" parent="h070200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWE3" name="Brewster" parent="q44096NW" 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="q44096NEB4" name="Dunnell" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07100003" name="East Fork Des Moines" parent="h071000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NE" name="Fairmont" parent="q44096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWF2" name="Heron Lake" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEA4" name="Jackson" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEA3" name="Jackson NW" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWG3" name="Lakefield" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWH3" name="Lakefield NE" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWH4" name="Lakefield SE" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWG4" name="Lakefield SW" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10230003" name="Little Sioux" parent="h102300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEB2" name="Mountain Lake SE" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWF3" name="Okabena" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWE4" name="Round Lake" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NWF4" name="Sioux Valley" parent="q44096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07100002" name="Upper Des Moines" parent="h071000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h07020010" name="Watonwan" parent="h070200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><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>