<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="f01055" name="Etowah" 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="q35088SEF4" name="Altoona" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><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="q34088NE" name="Birmingham North" parent="q34088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEG3" name="Boaz" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWB1" name="Colvin Gap" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEF3" name="Douglas" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEH1" name="Dunaway Mountain" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWA4" name="Gadsden East" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEH4" name="Gadsden West" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWA1" name="Glencoe" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SE" name="Guntersville" parent="q35088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h06030001" name="Guntersville Lake" parent="h060300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEG4" name="Howelton" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEF1" name="Hyatt Gap" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWA3" name="Keener" 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="h03160111" name="Locust" parent="h031601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h03150106" name="Middle Coosa" parent="h031501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEH2" name="Ohatchee" parent="q34088NE" 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="q35088SEH3" name="Rodentown" parent="q35088SE" 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="q34088NEG1" name="Steele" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03150105" name="Upper Coosa" parent="h031501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q35086SWC4" name="Weisner Mountain" parent="q35086SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWA2" name="Wellington" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>