<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="q45094SW" name="Faribault" 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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code="q45094SWC4" name="Janesville" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWD2" name="Kilkenny" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWC1" name="Le Center" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWA1" name="Le Sueur" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWF1" name="Little Chicago" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWE1" name="Lonsdale" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWB3" name="Madison Lake" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWA3" name="Mankato East" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWG3" name="Medford East" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWF3" name="Medford West" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWE4" name="Meriden" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWH3" name="Moland" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWD1" name="Montgomery" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWE3" name="Morristown" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWH2" name="Nerstrand" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWG1" name="Northfield" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWG4" name="Owatonna" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWH4" name="Owatonna SE" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45094SWF4" name="Saco" parent="q45094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0702" name="Minnesota" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f27103" name="Nicollet" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27131" name="Rice" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27143" name="Sibley" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27147" name="Steele" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0704" name="Upper Mississippi-Black-Root" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f27161" name="Waseca" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>