<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="q44096SW" name="Iowa Great Lakes" parent="q44096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q44096" name="Fairmont" 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="q44096SWB2" name="Ashton" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWC2" name="Cloverdale" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWH3" name="Dickens" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWF3" name="Everly" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWD4" name="Gaza" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWA2" name="George East" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWH4" name="Gillett Grove" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWG4" name="Greenville" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWE1" name="Harris" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWE3" name="Hartley" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWE4" name="Hartley SW" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWA4" name="Hospers" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWF1" name="Lake Park" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWF2" name="Lake Park SE" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWA1" name="Little Rock" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWA3" name="Matlock" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWE2" name="May City" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWD2" name="Melvin" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWG2" name="Milford" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWD1" name="Ocheyedan" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWG1" name="Okoboji" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWD3" name="Plessis" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWC4" name="Primghar" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWF4" name="Royal" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWC3" name="Sanborn" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWB3" name="Sheldon" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWB4" name="Sheldon SE" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWC1" name="Sibley East" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWB1" name="Sibley West" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWG3" name="Spencer" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWH1" name="Spirit Lake" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SWH2" name="Spirit Lake SE" parent="q44096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f19041" name="Clay" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0710" name="Des Moines" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19059" name="Dickinson" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19119" name="Lyon" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1017" name="Missouri-Big Sioux" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1023" name="Missouri-Little Sioux" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19141" name="O'Brien" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19143" name="Osceola" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19167" name="Sioux" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>