<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="h10270207" name="Lower Little Blue" parent="h102702" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h102702" name="Big Blue" parent="h1027" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1027" name="Kansas" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h10" name="Missouri" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term 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parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEA3" name="Greenleaf" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEB4" name="Greenleaf SE" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NWF2" name="Haddam" parent="q40098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEB1" name="Hanover East" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEB2" name="Hanover SE" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEA2" name="Hanover SW" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NEA1" name="Hanover West" parent="q40098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWC4" name="Hebron SW" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWE4" name="Hubbell" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40098NWG1" name="Washington NW" parent="q40098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWG2" name="Western SW" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>