<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="q41098SW" name="Fairbury" parent="q41098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q41098" name="Lincoln" 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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code="q41098SWC3" name="Deshler" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWA2" name="Edgar" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWA1" name="Edgar NW" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWH4" name="Endicott" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWG3" name="Fairbury" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWG4" name="Fairbury SW" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWF3" name="Gladstone" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWA4" name="Hardy" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWD3" name="Hebron" parent="q41098SW" 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 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWH3" name="Jansen" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWA3" name="Oak" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWE1" name="Ohiowa" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWB1" name="Ong" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWF4" name="Reynolds" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWB3" name="Ruskin" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWC1" name="Shickley" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWD1" name="Strang" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWH1" name="Swanton" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWF1" name="Tobias" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWE2" name="Tobias SW" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWG1" name="Western" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWH2" name="Western SE" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41098SWG2" name="Western SW" parent="q41098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f31035" name="Clay" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31059" name="Fillmore" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31067" name="Gage" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31095" name="Jefferson" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f20089" name="Jewell" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1027" name="Kansas" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f31129" name="Nuckolls" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f20157" name="Republic" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1025" name="Republican" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f31151" name="Saline" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31169" name="Thayer" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f20201" name="Washington" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>