<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="f46127" name="Union" 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="q43098NED2" name="Akron" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SEC4" name="Alcester" parent="q44098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SED4" name="Alcester SE" parent="q44098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEB1" name="Alsen" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SEB4" name="Beresford" parent="q44098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEB3" name="Burbank" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NED1" name="Chatsworth" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEC3" name="Elk Point" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NED3" name="Elk Point NE" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SEE4" name="Hawarden North" parent="q44098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEE1" name="Hawarden South" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SED1" name="Jackson" parent="q43098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NED4" name="Jefferson" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170101" name="Lewis and Clark Lake" parent="h101701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170203" name="Lower Big Sioux" parent="h101702" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p1574" name="Missouri National Recreational River" parent="p49" scope="National River"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEC1" name="Nora" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEC4" name="Ponca" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEC2" name="Richland" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170204" name="Rock" parent="h101702" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SE" name="Rock Rapids" parent="q44098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NE" name="Sioux City North" parent="q43098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEE4" name="Sioux City North" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SE" name="Sioux City South" parent="q43098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098SEE1" name="Sioux City South" parent="q43098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10170102" name="Vermillion" parent="h101701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NEB2" name="Vermillion SE" parent="q43098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>