<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="q44094NW" name="Albert Lea" 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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scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWB3" name="Brush Creek" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWD4" name="Conger" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWA2" name="Easton" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWF2" name="Ellendale" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWE4" name="Emmons" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWD2" name="Freeborn" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWA4" name="Frost" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWF4" name="Glenville" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWE2" name="Hartland" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWG3" name="Hayward" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWG2" name="Hollandale" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWF1" name="Hope" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWC4" name="Kiester" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWH4" name="London" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWA1" name="Mapleton" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWB1" name="Mapleton NE" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWC2" name="Matawan" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWB2" name="Minnesota Lake" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWG4" name="Myrtle" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWE1" name="New Richland" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWD1" name="Otisco" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWA3" name="Oza Tanka Lakebed" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWG1" name="Steele Center" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWC1" name="Waldorf" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NWC3" name="Wells" parent="q44094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f27013" name="Blue Earth" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27039" name="Dodge" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27043" name="Faribault" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27047" name="Freeborn" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19109" name="Kossuth" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0702" name="Minnesota" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19131" name="Mitchell" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27099" name="Mower" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27147" name="Steele" 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="f27161" name="Waseca" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19189" name="Winnebago" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19195" name="Worth" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>