<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="f27167" name="Wilkin" 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="q47098SEC1" name="Abercrombie" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NED3" name="Baker" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEE3" name="Barnesville" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEE4" name="Barnesville SW" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEF3" name="Big Slough" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020101" name="Bois De Sioux" parent="h090201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020106" name="Buffalo" parent="h090201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SEE4" name="Campbell" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SEF3" name="Campbell NE" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEB4" name="Christine" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEC3" name="Comstock" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SEE3" name="Doran" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SEC2" name="Dwight" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SEE2" name="Everdell" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SED4" name="Fairmount" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NE" name="Fargo" parent="q47098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SEF2" name="Foxhome" parent="q47098SE" 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="q47098NEF4" name="Lawndale" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020103" name="Otter Tail" parent="h090201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SEF1" name="Rothsay" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SEE1" name="Rothsay NW" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SED3" name="South of Wahpeton" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SEF4" name="Tintah" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020104" name="Upper Red" parent="h090201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SE" name="Wahpeton" parent="q47098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SED2" name="Wahpeton" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SED1" name="Wahpeton NE" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NEC4" name="Wolverton" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NED4" name="Wolverton SE" parent="q47098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>