<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="q44100NE" name="Mitchell" parent="q44100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q44100" name="Mitchell" 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="q44100NED1" name="Hoagland Lake" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEB1" name="Isham Lake" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEA2" name="Kimball North" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEA3" name="Kimball South" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEC4" name="Laffey Lake" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEG1" name="Letcher" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEH1" name="Letcher NE" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEG2" name="Letcher SW" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEH2" name="Loomis" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEA1" name="Lyonville" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEH3" name="Mitchell" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEG4" name="Mitchell SW" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEF3" name="Mount Vernon" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEF4" name="Old Stickney Lake" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEE3" name="Plankinton" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEB3" name="Platte Lake" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEH4" name="Shoemaker Dam" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEA4" name="Snow Lake" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEE4" name="Stickney" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEF2" name="Storla" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEE2" name="Storla SW" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEF1" name="Twin Lakes" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEC3" name="White Lake" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NED2" name="Wilmarth Lake" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44100NEB2" name="Wilson Dam" parent="q44100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f46003" name="Aurora" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46015" name="Brule" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46017" name="Buffalo" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46023" name="Charles Mix" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46035" name="Davison" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1016" name="James" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f46073" name="Jerauld" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1017" name="Missouri-Big Sioux" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1014" name="Missouri-White" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f46111" name="Sanborn" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>