<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="f46125" name="Turner" 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="q44098SEA3" name="Beresford NW" parent="q44098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWE4" name="Bridgewater East" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWF4" name="Canistota" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWG3" name="Center Point" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SEA4" name="Centerville" parent="q44098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWE1" name="Dolton" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWG4" name="East Vermillion Lake" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SW" name="Freeman" parent="q44098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWE2" name="Freeman" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWF2" name="Freeman SE" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWH4" name="Grass Lake" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NEA4" name="Hartford South" parent="q44098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWH2" name="Hurley" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWG4" name="Irene" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SEA2" name="Lennox" parent="q44098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SEA1" name="Lennox NW" parent="q44098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170203" name="Lower Big Sioux" parent="h101702" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWF1" name="Marion" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWE3" name="Midway" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWG1" name="Parker" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWH1" name="Parker NE" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWG2" name="Parker SW" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SE" name="Rock Rapids" parent="q44098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NW" name="Salem" parent="q44098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NE" name="Sioux Falls" parent="q44098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWF3" name="Turkey Ridge" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170102" name="Vermillion" parent="h101701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWH3" name="Viborg" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SWH4" name="Wakonda" parent="q44098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>