<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="f38043" name="Kidder" 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="q47100NWD3" name="Alkaline Lake" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWC3" name="Alkaline Lake NW" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10130103" name="Apple" parent="h101301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102NE" name="Bismarck" parent="q47102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWD2" name="Bowdon SE" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102NEH3" name="Braddock NE" parent="q47102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SW" name="Carrington" parent="q48100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1676" name="Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="p2803" name="Chase Lake Wilderness" parent="p20" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWE1" name="Crystal Springs" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWB2" name="Dawson" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWC3" name="Des Moines Lake" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SEH4" name="Harriet Lake SE" parent="q48102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWB4" name="Horsehead Lake" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1768" name="Hutchinson National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160001" name="James Headwaters" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p2255" name="Kidder County Waterfowl Production Area" parent="p29" scope="Waterfowl Production Area"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWB3" name="Kintyre NE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWC4" name="Kunkel Lake" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102NEH2" name="Lake Geneva" parent="q47102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1801" name="Lake George National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SEH3" name="Lake Helen" parent="q48102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWE4" name="Lake Louise" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWD3" name="Lake Williams" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1824" name="Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SE" name="Mc Clusky" parent="q48102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWE2" name="Medina SW" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWD4" name="Pettibone" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160002" name="Pipestem" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWA3" name="Pursian Lake" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWB3" name="Robinson" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWA2" name="Senior Lake" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1980" name="Slade National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NW" name="Steele" parent="q47100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWA2" name="Steele" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWB1" name="Steele NE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWA1" name="Steele NW" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102NEH1" name="Stony Slough" parent="q47102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWE3" name="Streeter NW" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2266" name="Stutsman County Waterfowl Production Area" parent="p29" scope="Waterfowl Production Area"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWE2" name="Sykeston SW" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWD1" name="Tappen NE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWC1" name="Tappen North" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWD2" name="Tappen SE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWC2" name="Tappen South" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWA3" name="Tuttle" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWA4" name="Tuttle SW" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWC2" name="Wagon Wheel Hill" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWB2" name="Willow Lake" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SEH2" name="Woodhouse Lake" parent="q48102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SWE3" name="Woodworth NW" parent="q48100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>