<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="q44092NE" name="Sparta" parent="q44092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q44092" name="La Crosse" 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="q44092NEH1" name="Kelly" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEF2" name="Kendall East" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEE2" name="Kendall West" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEC4" name="La Farge" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEG4" name="La Valle" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEH2" name="Mauston" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEB2" name="Melvina" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEA2" name="Middle Ridge" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEG1" name="New Lisbon North" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEG2" name="New Lisbon South" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEE1" name="Oakdale" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NED3" name="Ontario" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEH3" name="Potato Hill" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEH4" name="Reedsburg West" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEC2" name="Saint Marys" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEB1" name="Sparta" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NED1" name="Tomah" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEE3" name="Trippville" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEF4" name="Valton" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEA4" name="Viroqua" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NED4" name="West Lima" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEB3" name="Westby" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NED2" name="Wilton" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEG3" name="Wonewoc" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NEE4" name="Yuba" parent="q44092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f55057" name="Juneau" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55063" name="La Crosse" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55081" name="Monroe" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55103" name="Richland" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55111" name="Sauk" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0704" name="Upper Mississippi-Black-Root" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0706" name="Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f55123" name="Vernon" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0707" name="Wisconsin" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>