<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="q46098NW" name="Sisseton" parent="q46098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q46098" name="Milbank" 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="q46098NWA3" name="Amherst" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWC2" name="Britton East" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWB2" name="Britton West" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWH2" name="Claire City" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWH1" name="Claire City NE" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWG1" name="Claire City NW" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWG2" name="Claire City SW" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWG4" name="Drywood Lakes" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWE4" name="Eden" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWH4" name="Goodwill" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWD1" name="Havana" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWC3" name="Hickman Lake" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWE2" name="Hillhead" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWC1" name="Kidder" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWD2" name="Kidder SE" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWE3" name="Lake City" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWB4" name="Langford" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWA4" name="Langford SW" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWE1" name="Marlow" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWB1" name="Newark" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWA1" name="Newark NW" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWA2" name="Newark SW" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWF4" name="Piyas Lake" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWC4" name="Rose Hill Cemetery" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWH3" name="Sisseton" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWF3" name="South Red Iron Lake" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWB3" name="Spain" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWD4" name="Stangland Slough" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWD3" name="Twomile Lake" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWF2" name="Veblen" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWF1" name="Veblen NE" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46098NWG3" name="Whitestone Lake" parent="q46098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f46013" name="Brown" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46037" name="Day" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1016" name="James" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f46091" name="Marshall" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0702" name="Minnesota" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0902" name="Red" parent="h09" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f38077" name="Richland" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f46109" name="Roberts" parent="fUS46" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f38081" name="Sargent" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>