<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="q40100SE" name="Beloit" parent="q40100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q40100" name="Beloit" 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 thcode="1" 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name="Bloomington" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEF2" name="Blue Hill" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEB2" name="Covert" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SED1" name="Downs South" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEF1" name="Glen Elder South" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEE3" name="Hunter" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEG4" name="Lincoln" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEG3" name="Lincoln NW" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SED4" name="Lucas" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEC4" name="Luray" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SED3" name="Meades Ranch" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEE1" name="Mill Creek" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEC1" name="Osborne" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SED2" name="Osborne SE" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEC2" name="Osborne SW" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEA4" name="Paradise" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEB3" name="Paradise NE" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEA3" name="Paradise NW" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEH4" name="Shady Bend" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEG1" name="Solomon Rapids" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEE4" name="Sylvan Grove" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEE2" name="Tipton" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEF4" name="Vesper" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEC3" name="Vincent" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40100SEB4" name="Waldo" parent="q40100SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f20105" name="Lincoln" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f20123" name="Mitchell" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f20141" name="Osborne" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f20167" name="Russell" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1026" name="Smoky Hill" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>