<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="q43104SE" name="Alliance" parent="q43104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q43104" name="Alliance" 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 thcode="1" code="fLD10" name="North America" parent="fLD" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD" name="Land" parent="root" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="root" name="Earth" scope="Common geographic areas focused on the US"/></bt><nt><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEB4" name="Alliance East" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEA4" name="Alliance West" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SED4" name="Antioch" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEG2" name="Argo Hill" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEG3" name="Arnold Lake" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEB3" name="Berea Creek East" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEA3" name="Berea Creek West" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEH1" name="Billys Lake" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEH4" name="Bingham" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEB2" name="Box Butte" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEB1" name="Box Butte NE" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEA1" name="Box Butte NW" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEA2" name="Box Butte SW" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEG1" name="Dolly Warden Lake" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEF4" name="Ellsworth" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEG4" name="Gaunt Lake" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEF2" name="Green Lake" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEC4" name="Jesse Lake" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SED3" name="Krause Lake East" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEC3" name="Krause Lake West" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEE4" name="Lakeside" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEH3" name="Lowe Valley" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEE3" name="Peter Long Lake" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SED2" name="Skunk Lake" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SED1" name="Skunk Lake NE" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEC1" name="Skunk Lake NW" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEC2" name="Skunk Lake SW" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEE1" name="Smith Lake" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEE2" name="Twin Lakes" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEF1" name="Twin Lakes NE" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEF3" name="White Lake" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43104SEH2" name="Wolford Valley" parent="q43104SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f31013" name="Box Butte" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31031" name="Cherry" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31045" name="Dawes" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31069" name="Garden" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f31075" name="Grant" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1021" name="Loup" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f31123" name="Morrill" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1015" name="Niobrara" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1018" name="North Platte" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f31161" name="Sheridan" parent="fUS31" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>