<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="q45094SE" name="Rochester" 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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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SEC3" name="Pine Island" parent="q45094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SEG3" name="Plainview" parent="q45094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SEG4" name="Plainview SW" parent="q45094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SEE4" name="Rochester" parent="q45094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SEA1" name="Sogn" parent="q45094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SEG2" name="Theilman" parent="q45094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SEH1" name="Wabasha North" parent="q45094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SEH2" name="Wabasha South" parent="q45094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SEB2" name="Wanamingo" parent="q45094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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name="Olmsted" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55091" name="Pepin" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0704" name="Upper Mississippi-Black-Root" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f27157" name="Wabasha" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27169" name="Winona" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>