<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="h10110102" name="Little Muddy" parent="h101101" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h101101" name="Lake Sakakawea" parent="h1011" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1011" name="Missouri-Little Missouri" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h10" name="Missouri" 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="q49104NWE4" name="Alamo" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWF3" name="Alamo NE" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWC2" name="Alexandria" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWD4" name="Appam" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWH4" name="Big Meadow" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWC1" name="Blacktail Lake" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWD2" name="Blacktail Lake SE" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWB1" name="Bonetraill" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWB2" name="Bonetraill SE" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWA2" name="Bonetraill SW" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWE3" name="Bright Water Lake" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49106SEH2" name="Bull Butte" parent="q49106SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWD2" name="Colgan SE" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWF4" name="Corinth" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f38023" name="Divide" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWF2" name="Epping" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWF1" name="Epping NE" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWE1" name="Epping NW" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWB4" name="Hanks" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p366" name="Lake Sakakawea" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="p1813" name="Lake Zahl National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWC2" name="Otter Tail Creek" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWG2" name="Ray" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWG1" name="Ray NW" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWD3" name="Smoky Butte" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWE2" name="Spring Brook" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWC3" name="Stady" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWH1" name="Temple" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWG4" name="Tom Berg Lake" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWD1" name="Twin Lakes" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWA1" name="West Bonetraill" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f38105" name="Williams" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="p2270" name="Williams County Waterfowl Production Area" parent="p29" scope="Waterfowl Production Area"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWD3" name="Williston East" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104SWC3" name="Williston West" parent="q49104SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWB3" name="Writing Rock South" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49104NWC4" name="Zahl" parent="q49104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>