<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="q43096NW" name="Storm Lake" parent="q43096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q43096" name="Fort Dodge" 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="q43096NWB1" name="Granville East" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWA1" name="Granville West" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWA4" name="Kingsley" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWA3" name="Kingsley NW" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWG4" name="Lakeside" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWB2" name="Marcus" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWH4" name="Newell West" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWC1" name="Paullina" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWF1" name="Peterson" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWF2" name="Peterson SE" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWE2" name="Peterson SW" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWB4" name="Pierson" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWC3" name="Quimby" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWD4" name="Quimby SE" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWG2" name="Rembrandt" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWA2" name="Remsen" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWF4" name="Schaller North" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWG1" name="Sioux Rapids" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWH2" name="Sioux Rapids SE" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWG3" name="Storm Lake" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWH3" name="Storm Lake NE" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWE1" name="Sutherland East" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWD1" name="Sutherland West" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWC4" name="Washta" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NWH1" name="Webb" parent="q43096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f19021" name="Buena Vista" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19035" name="Cherokee" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19041" name="Clay" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0710" name="Des Moines" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" 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