<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="h10200101" name="Middle Platte-Buffalo" parent="h102001" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h102001" name="Middle Platte" parent="h1020" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1020" name="Platte" 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="f31001" name="Adams" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NEE2" name="Alda" parent="q41100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWG3" name="Alfalfa Center" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWF2" name="Amherst" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SEG2" name="Arnold SW" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100SWH1" name="Axtell East" 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1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWC1" name="Lexington NW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWD2" name="Lexington SE" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWB2" name="Lexington West" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f31111" name="Lincoln" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31113" name="Logan" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SEF1" name="Logan" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100SWD1" name="Loomis" parent="q41100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SED4" name="Maxwell" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SED3" name="Maxwell NE" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SEC4" name="Maxwell SW" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SEB3" name="North Platte West" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SEA2" name="North of Hershey" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SWA3" name="Oconto NW" parent="q42100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SWB4" name="Oconto SE" parent="q42100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42100SWA4" name="Oconto SW" parent="q42100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SEG3" name="Odencranze Table North" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SEG4" name="Odencranze Table South" parent="q42102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWD3" name="Overton" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f31137" name="Phelps" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term 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