<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="q44094NE" name="Austin" parent="q44094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q44094" name="Mason City" 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="q44094NEG3" name="Fountain" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NED3" name="Grand Meadow" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEG4" name="Greenleafton" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEH4" name="Harmony" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEB1" name="Hayfield" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEA1" name="Hayfield NW" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NED2" name="High Forest" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEC2" name="High Forest SW" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NED4" name="Le Roy" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEA4" name="Lyle" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEF1" name="Marion" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEE4" name="Ostrander" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEH2" name="Pilot Mound" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEH3" name="Preston" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEC1" name="Rock Dell" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEB4" name="Rose Creek" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEH1" name="Saint Charles" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NED1" name="Salem Corners" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEB2" name="Sargeant" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27109" name="Olmsted" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0704" name="Upper Mississippi-Black-Root" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0708" name="Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0706" name="Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19191" name="Winneshiek" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27169" name="Winona" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>