<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="f13265" name="Taliaferro" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS13" name="Georgia" 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="q34084NW" name="Athens" parent="q34084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEC4" name="Cadley" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NE" name="Clark Hill Lake" parent="q34084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEA4" name="Crawfordville" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03060105" name="Little" parent="h030601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SW" name="Milledgeville" parent="q34084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEA3" name="Philomath" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEB4" name="Sharon" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SEB1" name="Sparta NE" parent="q34084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SEA1" name="Sparta NW" parent="q34084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SE" name="Thomson" parent="q34084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NWH4" name="Union Point" parent="q34084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03070101" name="Upper Oconee" parent="h030701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h03060201" name="Upper Ogeechee" parent="h030602" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEB3" name="Washington West" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SWH1" name="White Plains" parent="q34084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>