<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="q40096SE" name="Kansas City" parent="q40096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q40096" name="Kansas City" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="qroot" name="USGS Quadrangles" parent="fUS" scope="quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS" name="United States" parent="fLD10" scope="country"/><term 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name="Knoxville" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEG1" name="Lawson" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEA2" name="Leavenworth" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEE3" name="Liberty" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEF3" name="Missouri City" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SED2" name="Nashua" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SED3" name="North Kansas City" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEG4" name="Oak Grove" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEC3" name="Parkville" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEB2" name="Platte City" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEH2" name="Rayville" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEC4" name="Shawnee" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SED1" name="Smithville" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEB1" name="Tracy" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEA1" name="Weston" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40096SEB3" name="Wolcott" parent="q40096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f20005" name="Atchison" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29047" name="Clay" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29049" name="Clinton" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29095" name="Jackson" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f20091" name="Johnson" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1027" name="Kansas" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f29107" name="Lafayette" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f20103" name="Leavenworth" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1030" name="Lower Missouri" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1024" name="Missouri-Nishnabotna" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f29165" name="Platte" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29177" name="Ray" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f20209" name="Wyandotte" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>