<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="q44086NE" name="Midland" parent="q44086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q44086" name="Midland" 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="q44086NED1" name="Coleman NE" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEH2" name="Crump" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEE2" name="Edenville" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEG2" name="Estey" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEE4" name="Floyd" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEE1" name="Gladwin" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEF4" name="Gordonville" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEB1" name="Hatton" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEF2" name="Hope" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEA1" name="Lake George" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEC3" name="Leaton" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEC2" name="Loomis" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEG3" name="Midland North" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEG4" name="Midland South" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEH1" name="Mount Forest" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEB4" name="Mount Pleasant" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NED4" name="Pleasant Valley" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEB3" name="Rosebush" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEE3" name="Sanford" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEC4" name="Shepherd" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEA3" name="Weidman" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEH3" name="Willard" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEA4" name="Winn" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEF1" name="Wooden Shoe Village" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEA2" name="Woods" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f26011" name="Arenac" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26017" name="Bay" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26035" name="Clare" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26051" name="Gladwin" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26073" name="Isabella" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26111" name="Midland" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0406" name="Northeastern Lake Michigan-Lake Michigan" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f26145" name="Saginaw" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0408" name="Southwestern Lake Huron-Lake Huron" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>