<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="f20135" name="Ness" parent="fUS20" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS20" name="Kansas" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><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><rt><term thcode="1" code="q39100SWD1" name="Alexander" parent="q39100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39102NEH3" name="Arnold" parent="q39102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SWC1" name="Bazine" parent="q39100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SWD2" name="Bazine SE" parent="q39100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SWC2" name="Bazine SW" parent="q39100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39102SEG1" name="Beeler" parent="q39102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39102SEH2" name="Beeler SE" parent="q39102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39102SEG2" name="Beeler SW" parent="q39102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NWC3" name="Brownell" parent="q39100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NW" name="Hays" parent="q39100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39102NE" name="Healy" parent="q39102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39102SEH1" name="Laird" parent="q39102SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SW" name="Larned" parent="q39100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030008" name="Lower Walnut Creek" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NWD4" name="Mccracken" parent="q39100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NWD3" name="Mccracken NE" parent="q39100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NWC4" name="Mccracken SW" parent="q39100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10260006" name="Middle Smoky Hill" parent="h102600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SWA1" name="Ness City" parent="q39100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SWB1" name="Ness City NE" parent="q39100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SWB2" name="Ness City SE" parent="q39100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100SWA2" name="Ness City SW" parent="q39100SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NWB3" name="Osgood" parent="q39100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030005" name="Pawnee" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NWA3" name="Ransom" parent="q39100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NWB4" name="Ransom SE" parent="q39100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39100NWA4" name="Ransom SW" parent="q39100NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39102SE" name="Scott City" parent="q39102" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10260003" name="Upper Smoky Hill" parent="h102600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h11030007" name="Upper Walnut Creek" parent="h110300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39102NEG3" name="Utica" parent="q39102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39102NEH4" name="Utica SE" parent="q39102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39102NEG4" name="Utica SW" parent="q39102NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>