<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="q46096NW" name="Lake Minnewaska" parent="q46096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q46096" name="St Cloud" 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="q46096NWF1" name="Alexandria East" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWE1" name="Alexandria West" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWD1" name="Brandon" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWC4" name="Cyrus" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWA1" name="Elbow Lake" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWB1" name="Erdahl" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWD2" name="Farwell" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWF2" name="Forada" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWE3" name="Glenwood" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWB2" name="Hoffman" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWC2" name="Kensington" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWE2" name="Lake Mary" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWE4" name="Lake Minnewaska" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWH1" name="Lake Osakis East" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWG1" name="Lake Osakis West" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWD3" name="Lowry" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWA4" name="Morris" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWG2" name="Osakis" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWH4" name="Padua" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWB4" name="Page Lake" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWA2" name="Patchen Lake" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWB3" name="Pomme de Terre Lakes" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWC1" name="Quam Lake" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWH3" name="Raymond Lake" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWG4" name="Sedan" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWD4" name="Starbuck" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWC3" name="Starbuck NW" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWF4" name="Terrace" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWF3" name="Villard" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWH2" name="West Union" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWG3" name="Westport" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46096NWA3" name="Wintermute Lake" parent="q46096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f27041" name="Douglas" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27051" name="Grant" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0702" name="Minnesota" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0701" name="Mississippi Headwaters" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f27121" name="Pope" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0902" name="Red" parent="h09" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f27145" name="Stearns" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27149" name="Stevens" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27153" name="Todd" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>