<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="f17015" name="Carroll" 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="h07060005" name="Apple-Plum" parent="h070600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEG3" name="Blackhawk" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWB3" name="Boone Branch" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWC4" name="Brookville" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NEG1" name="Clinton NW" parent="q42092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080101" name="Copperas-Duck" parent="h070801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NE" name="Davenport" parent="q42092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NW" name="Dixon" parent="q42090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SE" name="Dubuque South" parent="q43092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWA1" name="Fair Haven" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEF3" name="Green Island" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWC1" name="Hazelhurst" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWB4" name="Lanark" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWA3" name="Loran" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07090005" name="Lower Rock" parent="h070900" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWB1" name="Milledgeville" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWA4" name="Mount Carroll" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07090003" name="Pecatonica" parent="h070900" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEH3" name="Pleasant Valley" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SW" name="Rockford" parent="q43090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEG4" name="Savanna" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p616" name="Savanna Army Depot (Scheduled to close)" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWC3" name="Shannon" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NEH1" name="Thomson" parent="q42092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2027" name="Upper Mississippi River Wildlife And Fish Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEH4" name="Wacker" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>