<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="f46089" name="McPherson" 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="q46100NWC4" name="Bowdle-hosmer Lake" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160007" name="East Missouri Coteau" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160004" name="Elm" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NE" name="Elm River" parent="q46100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NW" name="Eureka" parent="q46100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWD2" name="Eureka East" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWC2" name="Eureka West" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWC3" name="Feinstein Lake" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEB1" name="Forbes" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEA1" name="Forbes NW" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEB2" name="Forbes SE" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEA2" name="Forbes SW" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEC1" name="Frederick NW" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEC2" name="Frederick SW" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWC1" name="Greenway" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWD3" name="Hillsview" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWD4" name="Hillsview SE" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWE4" name="Hosmer" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWF3" name="Hosmer NE" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWE3" name="Hosmer NW" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWF4" name="Hosmer SE" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEA3" name="Leola" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEA4" name="Leola SW" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWG2" name="Long Lake" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWH1" name="Long Lake NE" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWG1" name="Long Lake NW" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWH2" name="Long Lake SE" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWH4" name="Plainview Colony" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWH3" name="Plainview Colony NE" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWG3" name="Plainview Colony NW" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWG4" name="Plainview Colony SW" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEC3" name="Richmond NW" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEC4" name="Richmond SW" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWF2" name="Schumacher Lake" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWF1" name="Schumacher Lake NE" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWE2" name="Schumacher Lake SW" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160008" name="Snake" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10160003" name="Upper James" parent="h101600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10130102" name="Upper Lake Oahe" parent="h101301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWD1" name="Venturia" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10130106" name="West Missouri Coteau" parent="h101301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEB3" name="Wetonka North" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NEB4" name="Wetonka South" parent="q46100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NWE1" name="Wolff Lake" parent="q46100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>