<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="h09020301" name="Sandhill-Wilson" parent="h090203" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h090203" name="Lower Red" parent="h0902" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0902" name="Red" parent="h09" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h09" name="Souris-Red-Rainy" 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="q48098SEC1" name="Ada NW" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48096SWA1" name="Bejou" parent="q48096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NED4" name="Beltrami" parent="q48098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NEC4" name="Beltrami SW" parent="q48098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NWH4" name="Buxton" parent="q48098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NWG3" name="Buxton NW" parent="q48098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NWG4" name="Buxton SW" parent="q48098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NEA2" name="Bygland" parent="q48098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098SEA1" name="Caledonia" parent="q48098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NEB4" name="Climax" parent="q48098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NEA3" name="Climax NW" parent="q48098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NEA4" name="Climax SW" parent="q48098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NEF3" name="Dugdale" parent="q48098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48096SWC1" name="Ebro NW" parent="q48096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48098NEB3" name="Eldred" parent="q48098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 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