<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="f01019" name="Cherokee" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS01" name="Alabama" 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="q34086NW" name="Anniston" parent="q34086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWB4" name="Ballplay" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWE1" name="Borden Springs" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWD3" name="Cedar Bluff" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWC3" name="Centre" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWE2" name="Chattoogaville" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086NW" name="Chickamauga" parent="q35086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWD4" name="Ellisville" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWC1" name="Fort Payne" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWD2" name="Gaylesville" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWE4" name="Indian Mountain" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWD1" name="Jamestown" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWB3" name="Leesburg" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWC2" name="Little River" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1524" name="Little River Canyon National Preserve" parent="p30" scope="National Preserve"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWE1" name="Lyerly" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWE3" name="Melson" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03150106" name="Middle Coosa" parent="h031501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWD1" name="Piedmont" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWC1" name="Piedmont NW" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWB2" name="Portersville" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SW" name="Rome" parent="q35086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03150105" name="Upper Coosa" parent="h031501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086NWD4" name="Valley Head" parent="q35086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWC4" name="Weisner Mountain" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>