<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="f27171" name="Wright" 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="q46096SEH3" name="Albion Center" parent="q46096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SEH2" name="Annandale" parent="q46096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SW" name="Anoka" parent="q46094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWC2" name="Big Lake" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWB3" name="Buffalo East" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWA3" name="Buffalo West" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWA1" name="Clear Lake" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SEH1" name="Clearwater" parent="q46096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07010203" name="Clearwater-Elk" parent="h070102" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SEG4" name="Cokato" parent="q46096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07010204" name="Crow" parent="h070102" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SEF4" name="Dassel" parent="q46096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWB4" name="Delano" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWD2" name="Elk River" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SEG3" name="French Lake" parent="q46096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NE" name="Glencoe" parent="q45096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SEH4" name="Howard Lake" parent="q46096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NEF1" name="Hutchinson East" parent="q45096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SEF2" name="Kimball" parent="q46096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SEF3" name="Kingston" parent="q46096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SE" name="Litchfield" parent="q46096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWA1" name="Mayer" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1573" name="Mississippi National River And Recreation Area" parent="p49" scope="National River"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWB2" name="Monticello" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWC4" name="Rockford" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWD3" name="Rogers" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWC3" name="Saint Michael" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NW" name="Saint Paul" parent="q45094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWA2" name="Silver Creek" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NEG1" name="Silver Lake" parent="q45096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07010205" name="South Fork Crow" parent="h070102" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096SEG2" name="South Haven" parent="q46096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07010206" name="Twin Cities" parent="h070102" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWB1" name="Watertown" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46094SWA4" name="Waverly" parent="q46094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45096NEH1" name="Winsted" parent="q45096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>