<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="q41104NW" name="Sterling" parent="q41104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q41104" name="Sterling" 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="Pawnee Buttes" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWH1" name="Peetz" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWB4" name="Raymer" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWB3" name="Raymer NE" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWA3" name="Raymer NW" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWH4" name="Reiradon Hill" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWG3" name="Sterling North" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWG4" name="Sterling South" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWC4" name="Stoneham" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWD3" name="Stoneham NE" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWC3" name="Stoneham NW" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWD4" name="Stoneham SE" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWB1" name="Vim School" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWE2" name="Westplains" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWE3" name="Wild Horse Lake" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41104NWE4" name="Willard" parent="q41104NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f08075" name="Logan" parent="fUS08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f08087" name="Morgan" parent="fUS08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1025" name="Republican" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1019" name="South Platte" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f08123" name="Weld" parent="fUS08" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>