<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="f31003" name="Antelope" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS31" name="Nebraska" 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="q43098SWA2" name="Brunswick" parent="q43098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEG3" name="Clearwater" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42098NWA1" name="Closter" parent="q42098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42098NWB1" name="Closter NE" parent="q42098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SWA1" name="Creighton" parent="q43098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEF4" name="Deloit" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEF3" name="Deloit NE" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100NEH1" name="Elgin" parent="q42100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100NEG1" name="Elgin NW" parent="q42100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEF2" name="Ewing" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170101" name="Lewis and Clark Lake" parent="h101701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10210009" name="Loup" parent="h102100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10150007" name="Lower Niobrara" parent="h101500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10200201" name="Lower Platte-Shell" parent="h102002" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEH3" name="Neligh" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEH4" name="Neligh SE" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEG4" name="Neligh SW" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SW" name="Norfolk" parent="q43098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10220002" name="North Fork Elkhorn" parent="h102200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SE" name="O'Neill" parent="q43100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SWA4" name="Oakdale" parent="q43098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEG2" name="Orchard" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEH1" name="Orchard NE" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEG1" name="Orchard NW" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100NE" name="Ord" parent="q42100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100NEF1" name="Park Church" parent="q42100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SWB2" name="Plainview" parent="q43098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SWB1" name="Plainview NE" parent="q43098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEH2" name="Royal" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42098NW" name="Stanton" parent="q42098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SWB4" name="Tilden" parent="q43098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SWB3" name="Tilden NE" parent="q43098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SWA3" name="Tilden NW" parent="q43098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10220001" name="Upper Elkhorn" parent="h102200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEF1" name="Venus" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>