<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="h07100003" name="East Fork Des Moines" parent="h071000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h071000" name="Des Moines" parent="h0710" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0710" name="Des Moines" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h07" name="Upper Mississippi" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><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="q44096SEG4" name="Algona" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEB3" name="Alpha" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEE1" name="Armstrong" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEF2" name="Armstrong SE" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEG2" name="Bancroft" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEB4" name="Dunnell" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19063" name="Emmet" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEB1" name="Estherville" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEE3" name="Fenton" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEH2" name="German Valley" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEC1" name="Gruver" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19081" name="Hancock" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NEH2" name="Hardy" parent="q43096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEF4" name="Hobarton" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19091" name="Humboldt" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NEG3" name="Humboldt" parent="q43096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f27063" name="Jackson" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEA4" name="Jackson" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEA3" name="Jackson NW" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19109" name="Kossuth" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NEG2" name="Livermore" parent="q43096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEF3" name="Lone Rock" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NEH1" name="Lu Verne" parent="q43096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f27091" name="Martin" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19147" name="Palo Alto" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SED2" name="Ringsted" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NEG1" name="Saint Joseph" parent="q43096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEE2" name="Seneca" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEH4" name="Sexton" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096NEC3" name="Sherburn" parent="q44096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEF1" name="Swea City" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWB2" name="Thompson" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43096NEH3" name="Thor" parent="q43096NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44096SEH3" name="Titonka" parent="q44096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2025" name="Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National 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