<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="h1016" name="James" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><bt><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><nt><term thcode="1" code="h101600" name="James" parent="h1016" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q46100SE" name="Aberdeen" parent="q46100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100SW" name="Big Bend Dam" parent="q45100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SW" name="Carrington" parent="q48100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NW" name="Casselton" parent="q47098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100SE" name="Cooperstown" parent="q48100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098SW" name="De Smet" parent="q45098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102NE" name="Drake" parent="q48102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NE" name="Elm River" parent="q46100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100NW" name="Eureka" parent="q46100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098SW" name="Freeman" parent="q44098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46100SW" name="Gettysburg" parent="q46100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NW" name="Highmore" parent="q45100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100SE" name="Huron" parent="q45100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NE" name="Jamestown" parent="q47100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100SE" name="Lake Andes" parent="q44100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SE" name="Lamoure" parent="q47100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SW" name="Lisbon" parent="q47098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48102SE" name="Mc Clusky" parent="q48102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NE" name="Mitchell" parent="q44100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100NW" name="New Rockford" parent="q48100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS38" name="North Dakota" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q45100NE" name="Redfield" parent="q45100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NW" name="Salem" parent="q44098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NW" name="Sisseton" parent="q46098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS46" name="South Dakota" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NW" name="Steele" parent="q47100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48100NE" name="Stump Lake" parent="q48100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45098NW" name="Watertown" parent="q45098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098SW" name="Webster" parent="q46098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100SW" name="Wishek" parent="q47100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43098NW" name="Yankton" parent="q43098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>