<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="h04080203" name="Shiawassee" parent="h040802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h040802" name="Saginaw" parent="h0408" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0408" name="Southwestern Lake Huron-Lake Huron" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h04" name="Great Lakes" parent="hroot" 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parent="q43084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43084NWA1" name="Durand" parent="q43084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEH4" name="Easton" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43084NWC2" name="Fenton" parent="q43084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NEH3" name="Fowlerville" parent="q43086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWC2" name="Frankenmuth" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26049" name="Genesee" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEF4" name="Gordonville" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26057" name="Gratiot" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43084NWB3" name="Hartland" parent="q43084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEG1" name="Hemlock" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43084NWD3" name="Highland" parent="q43084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43084NWA4" name="Howell" parent="q43084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SED2" name="Ithaca" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43084NWC4" name="Kent Lake" parent="q43084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NEF1" name="Laingsburg" parent="q43086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEF2" name="Lakefield" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43084NWB2" name="Linden" parent="q43084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26093" name="Livingston" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEF1" name="Merrill" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26111" name="Midland" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEG4" name="Midland South" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43084NWA3" name="Oak Grove" parent="q43084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26125" name="Oakland" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43084NWE2" name="Ortonville" parent="q43084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEF4" name="Ovid East" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEG4" name="Owosso North" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43086NEG1" name="Owosso South" parent="q43086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEC3" name="Perrinton" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SED3" name="Pompeii" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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scale"/></rt></descriptor>