<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="f46079" name="Lake" 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="q45098SE" name="Brookings" parent="q45098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWH2" name="Buffalo Trading Post" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NEA2" name="Colton" parent="q44098NE" 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="q44098NWG1" name="Lake Herman" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWH1" name="Lake Madison" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWG2" name="Lake Madison SW" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170203" name="Lower Big Sioux" parent="h101702" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWH4" name="Madison" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWG3" name="Madison NW" 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="q45098SWF3" name="Oldham" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWF4" name="Oldham SE" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWG4" name="Ramona" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SEA4" name="Rutland" parent="q45098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SEA3" name="Rutland NW" parent="q45098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NW" name="Salem" parent="q44098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SWH3" name="Sinai" parent="q45098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NE" name="Sioux Falls" parent="q44098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 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="q44098NEA1" name="Wentworth" parent="q44098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWF1" name="Winfred" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWF2" name="Winfred SE" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>