<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="f38021" name="Dickey" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS38" name="North Dakota" 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="q47100SWH4" name="Coldwater Lake" parent="q47100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SWH3" name="Coldwater Lake NE" parent="q47100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1705" name="Dakota Lake National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEC2" name="Edgeley" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SED2" name="Edgeley SE" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SED4" name="Ellendale North" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NED1" name="Ellendale South" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160004" name="Elm" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NE" name="Elm River" parent="q46100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NW" name="Eureka" parent="q46100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEB1" name="Forbes" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEA1" name="Forbes NW" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEC1" name="Frederick NW" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SWH2" name="Fredonia" parent="q47100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEE3" name="Fullerton" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEF3" name="Fullerton NE" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEF4" name="Fullerton SE" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEG3" name="Glover" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEG4" name="Guelph" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEG1" name="Hecla" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEH1" name="Hecla NE" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEG2" name="Independence" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEA2" name="Kulm" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEB2" name="Kulm-edgeley Dam" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEF2" name="La Moure" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEE2" name="La Moure SW" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SE" name="Lamoure" parent="q47100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWH1" name="Long Lake NE" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1835" name="Maple River National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEB3" name="Merricourt" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEA3" name="Merricourt NW" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEB4" name="Merricourt SE" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEA4" name="Merricourt SW" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SED3" name="Monango" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEC3" name="Monango NW" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEC4" name="Monango SW" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEH3" name="Oakes" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEH4" name="Oakes SE" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEF1" name="Savo NE" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEE1" name="Savo NW" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEE4" name="Silverleaf" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160003" name="Upper James" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SEH2" name="Verona" parent="q47100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10130106" name="West Missouri Coteau" parent="h101301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020105" name="Western Wild Rice" parent="h090201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SW" name="Wishek" parent="q47100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>