<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="f17011" name="Bureau" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS17" name="Illinois" 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="q42090SWC3" name="Bradford" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWC2" name="Buda" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWD1" name="Buda NE" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWF2" name="Depue" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NW" name="Dixon" parent="q42090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWB3" name="Elmira" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWF3" name="Florid" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07090007" name="Green" parent="h070900" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SW" name="Kewanee" parent="q42090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWF4" name="La Moille" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWG1" name="Ladd" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07130001" name="Lower Illinois-Senachwine Lake" parent="h071300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h07090005" name="Lower Rock" parent="h070900" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWF1" name="Malden" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWC1" name="Manlius" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWG4" name="Mendota West" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWB1" name="Mineral" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWB2" name="Neponset" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWC4" name="New Bedford" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWE4" name="Ohio" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWE1" name="Princeton North" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWE2" name="Princeton South" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWE3" name="Putnam" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07130005" name="Spoon" parent="h071300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWG2" name="Spring Valley" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWD4" name="Walnut" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWD3" name="Whitefield" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWD2" name="Wyanet" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWB4" name="Yorktown" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>