<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="f31117" name="McPherson" 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="q42102NW" name="Arthur" parent="q42102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SWF1" name="Big Bald Hill NE" parent="q42102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NWE4" name="Bucktail" parent="q42102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SWE1" name="Bucktail Lake" parent="q42102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NEC3" name="Cody Lake NW" parent="q42102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NEC4" name="Cody Lake SW" parent="q42102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10210002" name="Dismal" parent="h102100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NE" name="Dismal River" parent="q42102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NWF4" name="Flats" parent="q42102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SEB1" name="Gragg Ranch" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NWE3" name="Lena" parent="q42102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10180014" name="Lower North Platte" parent="h101800" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10200101" name="Middle Platte-Buffalo" parent="h102001" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SE" name="North Platte" parent="q42102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SW" name="Ogallala" parent="q42102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SWH1" name="Pierson Ranch" parent="q42102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SEA1" name="Pullen Ranch" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NEB4" name="Ringgold" parent="q42102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NWH4" name="Schneringer Valley" parent="q42102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NWG4" name="Snyder Lake" parent="q42102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10210004" name="South Loup" parent="h102100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SEC1" name="Stapleton NW" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SWG1" name="Tin Camp Ranch" parent="q42102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NEA4" name="Tryon" parent="q42102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NEB3" name="Tryon NE" parent="q42102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NEA3" name="Tryon NW" parent="q42102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NWF3" name="Whitewater Lake" parent="q42102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NWG3" name="Wright Valley" parent="q42102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102NWH3" name="Wright Valley NE" parent="q42102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>