<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="f46077" name="Kingsbury" 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="q45098SWG2" name="Arlington" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWB3" name="Artesian NE" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWG1" name="Badger" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWC1" name="Bancroft East" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWB1" name="Bancroft West" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098NWE4" name="Bryant" parent="q45098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098NWB4" name="Carpenter SE" parent="q45098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWC3" name="Carthage" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098NWD4" name="Cherry Lake" parent="q45098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SW" name="De Smet" parent="q45098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWD1" name="De Smet" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWD2" name="De Smet SE" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWE1" name="Erwin" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098NWF4" name="Gertson Slough" parent="q45098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWD3" name="Howard NE" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWB2" name="Iroquois" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098NWG4" name="Lake Norden" parent="q45098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWF2" name="Lake Preston East" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWF1" name="Lake Preston NE" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWE2" name="Lake Preston West" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160011" name="Lower James" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWG3" name="Madison NW" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWC2" name="Manchester" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170201" name="Middle Big Sioux Coteau" parent="h101702" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160006" name="Middle James" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWF3" name="Oldham" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWE3" name="Oldham NW" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170103" name="South Big Sioux Coteau" parent="h101701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170202" name="Upper Big Sioux" parent="h101702" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170102" name="Vermillion" parent="h101701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098NW" name="Watertown" parent="q45098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098NWC4" name="Willow Lake SW" parent="q45098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>