<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="q47092NE" name="Ashland" parent="q47092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q47092" name="Ashland" 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="q47092NED2" name="Amnicon Point" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEB4" name="Ashland East" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEA4" name="Ashland West" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEB2" name="Bayfield" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEH3" name="Black River Harbor" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NED4" name="Cedar" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEC3" name="Chequamegon Point" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEH4" name="Copper Peak" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEF4" name="Little Girls Point" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEB3" name="Long Island" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEC2" name="Madeline Island" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEE1" name="Michigan Island" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEE2" name="Michigan Island Oe S" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEA2" name="Mount Ashwabay" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEG3" name="Nighthawk Creek" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEG4" name="North Ironwood" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEC1" name="Oak Island" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEC4" name="Odanah" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEE4" name="Oronto Bay" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEA1" name="Sand Island" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NED1" name="Stockton Island" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEA3" name="Washburn" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47092NEB1" name="York Island" parent="q47092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f55003" name="Ashland" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55007" name="Bayfield" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f26053" name="Gogebic" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55051" name="Iron" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0402" name="Southern Lake Superior-Lake Superior" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0401" name="Western Lake Superior" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>