<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="q44086NW" name="Big Rapids" 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 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="q44086NWF4" name="Altona" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWB1" name="Baldwin" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWD4" name="Big Bend" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWC4" name="Big Prairie" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWE3" name="Big Rapids" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWA2" name="Big Star Lake" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWH4" name="Blanchard" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWC1" name="Chase" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWF2" name="Chippewa Lake North" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWF3" name="Chippewa Lake South" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWA4" name="Dayton Center" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWF1" name="Evart" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWE2" name="Hersey" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWH2" name="Lake" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWH1" name="Lake NE" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWB2" name="Marlborough" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWG4" name="Mecosta" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWG3" name="Mecosta NW" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWG2" name="Merrill Lake" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWD1" name="Reed City North" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWD2" name="Reed City South" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWG1" name="Sears" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWH3" name="Sherman City" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWE1" name="Slaybaugh Corner" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWE4" name="Stanwood" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWA1" name="Townsend Lake" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWA3" name="Walkup Lake" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWC2" name="Whipple Lake" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWB4" name="White Cloud" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWB3" name="Woodland Park" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWC3" name="Woodville" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NWD3" name="Woodville NE" parent="q44086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f26035" name="Clare" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26073" name="Isabella" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26085" name="Lake" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26107" name="Mecosta" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26123" name="Newaygo" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0406" name="Northeastern Lake Michigan-Lake Michigan" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f26133" name="Osceola" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0405" name="Southeastern Lake Michigan" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0408" name="Southwestern Lake Huron-Lake Huron" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>