<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="f38057" name="Mercer" 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="q48102SWB2" name="Beulah" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWB1" name="Beulah NE" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWA1" name="Beulah NW" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102NWB4" name="Blackwater Lake SE" parent="q48102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102NWA4" name="Blackwater Lake SW" parent="q48102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47104NE" name="Dickinson" parent="q47104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104SEG2" name="Dodge" parent="q48104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102NWD4" name="Emmet SE" parent="q48102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102NWC4" name="Emmet SW" parent="q48102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p901" name="Fort Berthold Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102NW" name="Garrison" parent="q48102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102NWE4" name="Garrison Dam North" parent="q48102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWE1" name="Garrison Dam South" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102NW" name="Glen Ullin" parent="q47102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102NWB1" name="Glen Ullin NE" parent="q47102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102NWA1" name="Glen Ullin NW" parent="q47102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104SEH2" name="Golden Valley" parent="q48104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104SEH1" name="Golden Valley NE" parent="q48104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104SEG1" name="Golden Valley NW" parent="q48104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWF3" name="Hannover NE" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWE3" name="Hannover NW" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SW" name="Hazen" parent="q48102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWD2" name="Hazen East" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWD1" name="Hazen NE" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWC1" name="Hazen NW" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWC2" name="Hazen West" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47104NEH1" name="Hebron" parent="q47104NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47104NEG1" name="Indian Butte" parent="q47104NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104SE" name="Killdeer" parent="q48104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10130201" name="Knife" parent="h101302" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p1359" name="Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site" parent="p43" scope="National Historic Site"/><term thcode="1" code="h10110101" name="Lake Sakakawea" parent="h101101" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p366" name="Lake Sakakawea" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWA3" name="Medicine Butte" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWB3" name="Medicine Butte NE" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWB4" name="Medicine Butte SE" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWA4" name="Medicine Butte SW" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10130101" name="Painted Woods-Square Butte" parent="h101301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104NE" name="Parshall" parent="q48104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104NEH4" name="Raub SE" parent="q48104NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWD3" name="Red Butte" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWC3" name="Red Butte NW" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102NWF4" name="Riverdale North" parent="q48102NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104SEG3" name="Schaffner Creek" parent="q48104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104SEH3" name="Schaffner Creek NE" parent="q48104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWE2" name="Stanton" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWF2" name="Stanton SE" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104NEG4" name="Twin Buttes" parent="q48104NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104SEH4" name="Willow Creek East" parent="q48104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48104SEG4" name="Willow Creek West" parent="q48104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SWA2" name="Zap" parent="q48102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>