<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="f31019" name="Buffalo" 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="q41100NWG3" name="Alfalfa Center" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWF2" name="Amherst" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SEC4" name="Boelus" parent="q42100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SW" name="Broken Bow" parent="q42100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NEA2" name="Buckeye Valley" parent="q41100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NEC1" name="Cameron" parent="q41100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NEC3" name="Denman" parent="q41100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWF3" name="Elm Creek East" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWE3" name="Elm Creek West" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NEB2" name="Gibbon North" parent="q41100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NEB3" name="Gibbon South" parent="q41100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NE" name="Grand Island" parent="q41100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SWH4" name="Hazard" parent="q42100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NW" name="Kearney" parent="q41100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWH3" name="Kearney" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SWG4" name="Litchfield SW" parent="q42100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SWF4" name="Mason City SE" parent="q42100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SWE4" name="Mason City SW" parent="q42100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10200101" name="Middle Platte-Buffalo" parent="h102001" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10200103" name="Middle Platte-Prairie" parent="h102001" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWE1" name="Miller" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWF1" name="Miller NE" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWE2" name="Miller SW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10210005" name="Mud" parent="h102100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NEA3" name="Newark" parent="q41100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWH1" name="Pleasanton" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWG1" name="Pleasanton NW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWH2" name="Pleasanton SE" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NEA1" name="Poole" parent="q41100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NEB1" name="Poole NE" parent="q41100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SEA4" name="Ravenna" parent="q42100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWG2" name="Riverdale" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SEB4" name="Rockville" parent="q42100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SE" name="Saint Paul" parent="q42100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NEC2" name="Shelton" parent="q41100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10210004" name="South Loup" parent="h102100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10200102" name="Wood" parent="h102001" scope="hydrologic unit"/></rt></descriptor>