<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="q41100NW" name="Kearney" parent="q41100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q41100" name="Grand Island" 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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thcode="1" code="q41100NWA1" name="Cozad NW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWF3" name="Elm Creek East" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWF4" name="Elm Creek SE" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWE4" name="Elm Creek SW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWE3" name="Elm Creek West" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWB4" name="Elwood" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWA3" name="Elwood NW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWA4" name="Elwood SW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWB3" name="Johnson Lake" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWH3" name="Kearney" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWH4" name="Kearney SE" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWG4" name="Kearney SW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWC2" name="Lexington East" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWC1" name="Lexington NW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWD2" name="Lexington SE" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWB2" name="Lexington West" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWE1" name="Miller" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWF1" name="Miller NE" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWE2" name="Miller SW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWD3" name="Overton" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWH1" name="Pleasanton" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWG1" name="Pleasanton NW" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWH2" name="Pleasanton SE" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWG2" name="Riverdale" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41100NWD1" name="Sumner" parent="q41100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f31019" name="Buffalo" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31047" name="Dawson" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31063" name="Frontier" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31073" name="Gosper" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31099" name="Kearney" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1021" name="Loup" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f31137" name="Phelps" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1020" name="Platte" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1025" name="Republican" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>