<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="h1025" name="Republican" 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="h102500" name="Republican" parent="h1025" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q41102SW" name="Benkelman" parent="q41102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40104NE" name="Bonny Reservoir" parent="q40104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40104SE" name="Burlington" parent="q40104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SW" name="Clay Center" parent="q40098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS08" name="Colorado" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NW" name="Concordia" parent="q40098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SW" name="Fairbury" parent="q41098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104SW" name="Fort Morgan" parent="q41104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40102SW" name="Goodland" parent="q40102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41102NE" name="Gothenburg" parent="q41102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100SW" name="Holdrege" parent="q41100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41102NW" name="Imperial" parent="q41102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NE" name="Julesburg" parent="q41104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS20" name="Kansas" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NW" name="Kearney" parent="q41100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40104NW" name="Last Chance" parent="q40104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40104SW" name="Limon" parent="q40104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098SE" name="Manhattan" parent="q40098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41102SE" name="Mc Cook" parent="q41102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS31" name="Nebraska" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100NW" name="Norton" parent="q40100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40102SE" name="Oakley" parent="q40102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40102NE" name="Oberlin" parent="q40102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42102SW" name="Ogallala" parent="q42102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100SE" name="Red Cloud" parent="q41100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40102NW" name="Saint Francis" parent="q40102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100NE" name="Smith Center" parent="q40100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NW" name="Sterling" parent="q41104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104SE" name="Wray" parent="q41104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>