<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="f17119" name="Madison" 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="q39092NEG1" name="Alton" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEH1" name="Bethalto" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140101" name="Cahokia-Joachim" parent="h071401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NW" name="Carlyle Lake" parent="q39090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p505" name="Charles Melvin Price Support Center" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWA3" name="Collinsville" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEG2" name="Columbia Bottom" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWA2" name="Edwardsville" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEF1" name="Elsah" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEG3" name="Granite City" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWC2" name="Grantfork" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWC3" name="Highland" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140204" name="Lower Kaskaskia" parent="h071402" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWB2" name="Marine" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEH3" name="Monks Mound" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWC1" name="New Douglas" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07110009" name="Peruque-Piasa" parent="h071100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWD2" name="Pocahontas" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWA1" name="Prairietown" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWB3" name="Saint Jacob" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NE" name="Saint Louis" parent="q39092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWD3" name="Saint Rose" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140203" name="Shoal" parent="h071402" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEH2" name="Wood River" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWB1" name="Worden" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>