<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="f46059" name="Hand" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS46" name="South 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="q45100SWH2" name="Ames" parent="q45100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100SW" name="Big Bend Dam" parent="q45100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100SWF3" name="Big Bend Dam NE" parent="q45100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NEB3" name="Burdette" parent="q45100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100SEB3" name="Cottonwood Lake" parent="q45100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10140105" name="Crow" parent="h101401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p887" name="Crow Creek Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100SWH3" name="Duncan Church" parent="q45100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160007" name="East Missouri Coteau" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NW" name="Highmore" parent="q45100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NWF3" name="Highmore NE" parent="q45100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NWF4" name="Highmore SE" parent="q45100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100SE" name="Huron" parent="q45100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100SWF1" name="Macs Corner NE" parent="q45100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100SWF2" name="Macs Corner SE" parent="q45100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10140103" name="Medicine Knoll" parent="h101401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160006" name="Middle James" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NEA4" name="Miller" parent="q45100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 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name="Rezac Lake" parent="q45100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NWF1" name="Rezac Lake NE" parent="q45100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NEB1" name="Rockham" parent="q45100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NEB2" name="Rockham SE" parent="q45100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NEA2" name="Rockham SW" parent="q45100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160008" name="Snake" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NEC3" name="Tulare NW" parent="q45100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NEC4" name="Tulare SW" parent="q45100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160009" name="Turtle" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100SEB1" name="Vayland" parent="q45100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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