<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="q47102SW" name="Elgin" parent="q47102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q47102" name="Bismark" 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="q47102SWF3" name="Bell Coulee East" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWE3" name="Bell Coulee West" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWE2" name="Brisbane" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWH1" name="Burgess" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWD1" name="Carson" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWD2" name="Carson SE" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWA3" name="Coffin Buttes" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWF1" name="Dogtooth Buttes" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWB1" name="Elgin" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWG1" name="Flasher" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWG2" name="Freda" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWC1" name="Heil" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWE1" name="Lark" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWC2" name="Leith" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWE4" name="Lookout Butte" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWF4" name="Lookout Butte SE" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWA1" name="New Leipzig North" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWA2" name="New Leipzig South" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWH4" name="Pamplin Hills" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWD3" name="Paradise Flats" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWC4" name="Parks Hills" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWD4" name="Pitt Creek" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWH3" name="Porcupine" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWB3" name="Pretty Rock Butte" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWB4" name="Pretty Rock Butte SE" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWF2" name="Raleigh" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWA4" name="Round Top" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWB2" name="Sheep Creek Dam" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWG3" name="Shields" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWG4" name="Shields SW" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWH2" name="Timmer" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47102SWC3" name="Wheeler Hills" parent="q47102SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f38037" name="Grant" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1013" name="Missouri-Oahe" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f38059" name="Morton" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f38085" name="Sioux" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>