<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="h04040001" name="Little Calumet-Galien" parent="h040400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h040400" name="Southwestern Lake Michigan" parent="h0404" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0404" name="Southwestern Lake Michigan" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h04" name="Great Lakes" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><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="q42088NEE1" name="Baroda" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43088SEE4" name="Benton Harbor" parent="q43088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26021" name="Berrien" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NED1" name="Bridgman" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NEC1" name="Bridgman Oe W" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NWH4" name="Chesterton" parent="q42088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17031" name="Cook" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088SWF1" name="Crown Point" parent="q42088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NWH3" name="Dune Acres" parent="q42088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NEE2" name="Galien" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NWF4" name="Gary" parent="q42088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NWF3" name="Gary Oe N" parent="q42088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NWE4" name="Highland" parent="q42088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1364" name="Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore" parent="p38" scope="National Lakeshore"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NEB4" name="La Porte West" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f18091" name="LaPorte" parent="fUS18" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f18089" name="Lake" parent="fUS18" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NWD3" name="Lake Calumet" parent="q42088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088SWF2" name="Leroy" parent="q42088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NEE3" name="Lydick" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NEB3" name="Michigan City East" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NEA3" name="Michigan City West" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NEC2" name="New Buffalo East" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NEB2" name="New Buffalo West" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NED3" name="New Carlisle" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NWG3" name="Ogden Dunes" parent="q42088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088SWG1" name="Palmer" parent="q42088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NWG4" name="Portage" parent="q42088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f18127" name="Porter" parent="fUS18" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088SWE1" name="Saint John" parent="q42088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f18141" name="Saint Joseph" parent="fUS18" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NEC3" name="Springville" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43088SED4" name="Stevensville" parent="q43088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NED2" name="Three Oaks" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088SWH1" name="Valparaiso" parent="q42088SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NEA4" name="Westville" parent="q42088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42088NWE3" name="Whiting" parent="q42088NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>