<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="q42086NW" name="Elkhart" parent="q42086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q42086" name="Fort Wayne" 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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parent="q42086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42086NWC3" name="Middlebury" parent="q42086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42086NWC4" name="Millersburg" parent="q42086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42086NWF3" name="Mongo" parent="q42086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42086NWB2" name="Mottville" parent="q42086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42086NWE1" name="Nottawa" parent="q42086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42086NWE4" name="Oliver Lake" parent="q42086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42086NWG3" name="Orland" parent="q42086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42086NWD3" name="Shipshewana" parent="q42086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42086NWG4" name="Stroh" parent="q42086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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parent="fUS18" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f18113" name="Noble" parent="fUS18" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26149" name="Saint Joseph" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0405" name="Southeastern Lake Michigan" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f18151" name="Steuben" parent="fUS18" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0410" name="Western Lake Erie" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>