<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="f46081" name="Lawrence" 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="q45104NW" name="Belle Fourche" parent="q45104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45106NEH4" name="Beulah" parent="q45106NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1154" name="Black Hills National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q45106SEH3" name="Buckhorn" parent="q45106SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104NWA4" name="Chicken Creek" parent="q45104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWA3" name="Crooks Tower" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWD2" name="Deadman Mountain" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWC1" name="Deadwood North" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWC2" name="Deadwood South" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45106NE" name="Devils Tower" parent="q45106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104NWB4" name="Jolly" parent="q45104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWB2" name="Lead" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10120202" name="Lower Belle Fourche" parent="h101202" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWA1" name="Maurice" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10120111" name="Middle Cheyenne-Elk" parent="h101201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWC3" name="Minnesota Ridge" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWB3" name="Nahant" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWD3" name="Nemo" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45106SEH2" name="Old Baldy Mountain" parent="q45106SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWE3" name="Piedmont" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10120110" name="Rapid" parent="h101201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SW" name="Rapid City" parent="q45104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10120203" name="Redwater" parent="h101202" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104NWC4" name="Saint Onge" parent="q45104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104NWD4" name="Saint Onge SE" parent="q45104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWA2" name="Savoy" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWB1" name="Spearfish" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWD1" name="Sturgis" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45106SE" name="Sundance" parent="q45106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45104SWE2" name="Tilford" parent="q45104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45106SEH1" name="Tinton" parent="q45106SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>