<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="h10150007" name="Lower Niobrara" parent="h101500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h101500" name="Niobrara" parent="h1015" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1015" name="Niobrara" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h10" name="Missouri" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100NEE4" name="Dorsey SW" parent="q43100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100NWH2" name="Dustin" parent="q43100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEB1" name="Emmet" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEF2" name="Ewing" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f31089" name="Holt" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SED1" name="Inman" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f31107" name="Knox" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100NEE2" name="Lynch" parent="q43100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100NEC3" name="Meek" parent="q43100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100NED3" name="Meek NE" parent="q43100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100NEC4" name="Meek SW" parent="q43100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1574" name="Missouri National Recreational River" parent="p49" scope="National River"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100NEF2" name="Monowi" parent="q43100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100NEH2" name="Niobrara" parent="q43100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEC1" name="O'Neill" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100NED4" name="Opportunity" parent="q43100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEG2" name="Orchard" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEH1" name="Orchard NE" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEG1" name="Orchard NW" parent="q43100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43100SEE1" name="Page" 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