<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="f17067" name="Hancock" 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="q41092SEA3" name="Augusta" parent="q41092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07110001" name="Bear-Wyaconda" parent="h071100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWH2" name="Bentley" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWH3" name="Bowen" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NW" name="Burlington" parent="q41092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWH4" name="Burnside" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWD3" name="Canton" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWH1" name="Carthage East" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWG1" name="Carthage West" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWG4" name="Colusa" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWG3" name="Dallas City" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080104" name="Flint-Henderson" parent="h070801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWF3" name="Fort Madison" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SEA1" name="Fountain Green" parent="q41092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NE" name="Galesburg" parent="q41092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWF1" name="Hamilton" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SW" name="Keokuk" parent="q41092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWE1" name="Keokuk" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NEA4" name="La Harpe" parent="q41092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07130010" name="La Moine" parent="h071300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWE3" name="Lima" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWH3" name="Lomax" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWG3" name="Loraine" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07100009" name="Lower Des Moines" parent="h071000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SE" name="Macomb" parent="q41092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWE4" name="Nauvoo" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWF4" name="Niota" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SEA2" name="Plymouth" parent="q41092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NEA3" name="Stronghurst" parent="q41092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWF2" name="Sutter" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWF3" name="Tioga" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWE2" name="Warsaw" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092SWG2" name="West Point" parent="q41092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>