<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="h04080205" name="Cass" 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" 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="q44084NEA4" name="Argyle" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEA2" name="Bad Axe East" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWB2" name="Birch Run North" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWA2" name="Bridgeport" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWH3" name="Burnside" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWE1" name="Caro" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWG4" name="Cass City" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWG2" name="Clifford" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWC3" name="Clio" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWE4" name="Colling" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWE3" name="Columbiaville" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWH1" name="Decker" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWF1" name="East Dayton" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWF4" name="Ellington" parent="q44084NW" 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="q44084NWG3" name="Gagetown" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26049" name="Genesee" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWD1" name="Gilford" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26063" name="Huron" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SEA2" name="Juhl" parent="q44084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWE2" name="Juniata" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWG1" name="Kingston" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26087" name="Lapeer" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWH2" name="Marlette" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWF2" name="Mayville" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEB3" name="Minden City" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWH3" name="New Greenleaf" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWD3" name="Otisville" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEB4" name="Palms" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26145" name="Saginaw" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWA1" name="Saginaw" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SEB1" name="Sandusky" parent="q44084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26151" name="Sanilac" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWH4" name="Shabbona" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1975" name="Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SEA1" name="Snover" parent="q44084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26157" name="Tuscola" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NEA3" name="Ubly" parent="q44084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084SWD2" name="Vassar" parent="q44084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>