<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="f31051" name="Dixon" 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="q43098SEB1" name="Allen" parent="q43098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEB3" name="Burbank" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NWH4" name="Coleridge SE" parent="q43098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SEA1" name="Concord" parent="q43098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEC3" name="Elk Point" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SEC2" name="Emerson" parent="q43098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NED4" name="Jefferson" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SWH1" name="Laurel" parent="q43098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SWH2" name="Laurel SE" parent="q43098SW" 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="h10220004" name="Logan" parent="h102200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEB4" name="Martinsburg" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEA4" name="Martinsburg SW" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEA3" name="Maskell" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NWH2" name="Meckling" parent="q43098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1574" name="Missouri National Recreational River" parent="p49" scope="National River"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SW" name="Norfolk" parent="q43098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NWH3" name="Obert" parent="q43098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEC4" name="Ponca" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NE" name="Sioux City North" parent="q43098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SE" name="Sioux City South" parent="q43098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEA2" name="Vermillion" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SEB2" name="Wakefield" parent="q43098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SEA2" name="Wakefield SW" parent="q43098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SEC1" name="Waterbury" parent="q43098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1075" name="Winnebago Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NW" name="Yankton" parent="q43098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>