<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="q44098NW" name="Salem" parent="q44098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q44098" name="Sioux Falls" 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="q44098NWB3" name="Alexandria" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWC1" name="Bitter Lake" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWE4" name="Bridgewater East" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWD4" name="Bridgewater West" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWH2" name="Buffalo Trading Post" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWF4" name="Canistota" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWE1" name="Canova East" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWD2" name="Canova SE" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWD1" name="Canova West" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWG4" name="East Vermillion Lake" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWC2" name="Epiphany" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWA4" name="Ethan" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWC3" name="Farmer" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWA2" name="Farwell" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWA1" name="Farwell NW" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWH4" name="Grass Lake" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWH3" name="Humboldt" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWG1" name="Lake Herman" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWH1" name="Lake Madison" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWG2" name="Lake Madison SW" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWG3" name="Montrose" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWB1" name="Morris Lake" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWB2" name="Ness Chain Lakes" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWA3" name="Riverside" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWB4" name="Rockport Colony" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWE3" name="Salem" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWF3" name="Salem NE" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWD3" name="Spencer" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWC4" name="Spencer SW" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWE2" name="Unityville" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWF1" name="Winfred" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44098NWF2" name="Winfred SE" parent="q44098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f46035" name="Davison" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46061" name="Hanson" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46067" name="Hutchinson" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1016" name="James" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f46079" name="Lake" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46087" name="McCook" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46097" name="Miner" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46099" name="Minnehaha" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1017" name="Missouri-Big Sioux" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f46111" name="Sanborn" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46125" name="Turner" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>