<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="q44094SW" name="Mason City" 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 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="q44094SWE1" name="Bristol" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWB4" name="Britt" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWA1" name="Buffalo Center" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWB1" name="Buffalo Center NE" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWA2" name="Buffalo Center SW" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWF4" name="Burchinal" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWH1" name="Carpenter" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWF3" name="Clear Lake East" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWE3" name="Clear Lake West" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWB3" name="Crystal Lake" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWC4" name="Duncan" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWE2" name="Fertile" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWF1" name="Fertile NE" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWF2" name="Fertile SE" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWC2" name="Forest City" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWD4" name="Garner" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWH2" name="Grafton" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWG4" name="Hanford" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWC3" name="Hayfield" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWD1" name="Lake Mills" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWG2" name="Manly" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWG3" name="Mason City" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWH4" name="Mason City SE" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWD3" name="Miller" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWH3" name="Nora Springs" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWG1" name="Northwood" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWD2" name="Pilot Knob" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWB2" name="Thompson" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWE4" name="Ventura Heights" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWC1" name="Vinje" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWA4" name="Wesley" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWA3" name="Woden" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f19033" name="Cerro Gordo" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0710" name="Des Moines" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19067" name="Floyd" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19081" name="Hancock" parent="fUS19" 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="h0708" name="Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19189" name="Winnebago" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19195" name="Worth" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>