<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="q44086SE" name="Alma" 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="q44086SEH2" name="Alicia" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEC1" name="Alma North" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEC2" name="Alma South" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEE3" name="Ashley" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEE1" name="Breckenridge" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEA3" name="Butternut" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEB3" name="Carson City" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEF3" name="Chapin" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEH3" name="Chesaning East" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEG3" name="Chesaning West" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEA2" name="Crystal" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEH4" name="Easton" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEG1" name="Hemlock" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEB4" name="Hubbardston" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SED2" name="Ithaca" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEF2" name="Lakefield" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEC4" name="Maple Rapids" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEF1" name="Merrill" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEF4" name="Ovid East" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEE4" name="Ovid West" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEG4" name="Owosso North" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEA4" name="Palo" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEC3" name="Perrinton" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SED3" name="Pompeii" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEE2" name="Rathbone" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEB1" name="Riverdale" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEG2" name="Saint Charles" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SED4" name="Saint Johns North" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SED1" name="Saint Louis" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEH1" name="Shields" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEB2" name="Sumner" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086SEA1" name="Vestaburg" parent="q44086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f26037" name="Clinton" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26057" name="Gratiot" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26067" name="Ionia" 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="f26117" name="Montcalm" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26145" name="Saginaw" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26155" name="Shiawassee" 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>