<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="q45094NW" name="Saint Paul" parent="q45094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q45094" name="St Paul" 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="q45094NWG3" name="Farmington" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWA3" name="Hamburg" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWA4" name="Henderson" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWE1" name="Hopkins" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWH2" name="Inver Grove Heights" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWD3" name="Jordan East" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWC3" name="Jordan West" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWA1" name="Mayer" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWF1" name="Minneapolis South" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWD2" name="Shakopee" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWC4" name="Union Hill" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWE4" name="Veseli" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWC2" name="Victoria" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWB2" name="Waconia" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094NWB1" name="Watertown" parent="q45094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f27019" name="Carver" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27037" name="Dakota" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27049" name="Goodhue" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27053" name="Hennepin" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term 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