<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="q47100NW" name="Steele" parent="q47100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q47100" name="Jamestown" 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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scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWG2" name="Cleveland SW" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWE1" name="Crystal Springs" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWB2" name="Dawson" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWH3" name="Gackle NE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWG3" name="Gackle North" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWG4" name="Gackle South" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWA4" name="Kintyre" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWB3" name="Kintyre NE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWB4" name="Mckenna Lake North" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWF1" name="Medina" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWF2" name="Medina SE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWE2" name="Medina SW" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWA3" name="Pursian Lake" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWA2" name="Steele" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWB1" name="Steele NE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWA1" name="Steele NW" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWF3" name="Streeter" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWD4" name="Streeter Flats" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWE3" name="Streeter NW" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWF4" name="Streeter SE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWE4" name="Streeter SW" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWD1" name="Tappen NE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWC1" name="Tappen North" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWD2" name="Tappen SE" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47100NWC2" name="Tappen South" parent="q47100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f38029" name="Emmons" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1016" name="James" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f38043" name="Kidder" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f38045" name="LaMoure" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f38047" name="Logan" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1013" name="Missouri-Oahe" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f38093" name="Stutsman" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>