<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="f17157" name="Randolph" 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="q39092SEH3" name="Ames" parent="q39092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWB3" name="Baldwin" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWB2" name="Belgique" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140106" name="Big Muddy" parent="h071401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SEG4" name="Bloomsdale" parent="q39092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140101" name="Cahokia-Joachim" parent="h071401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NW" name="Carbondale" parent="q38090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWB1" name="Chester" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWD3" name="Coulterville" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWA4" name="Evansville" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38092NE" name="Farmington" parent="q38092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SE" name="Festus" parent="q39092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWA1" name="Kaskaskia" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWA2" name="Lithium" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140204" name="Lower Kaskaskia" parent="h071402" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWD4" name="Percy" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SW" name="Pinckneyville" parent="q39090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SEH4" name="Prairie du Rocher" parent="q39092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWA3" name="Red Bud" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWC2" name="Rockwood" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38092NEH1" name="Sainte Genevieve" parent="q38092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1267" name="Shawnee National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWC4" name="Steeleville" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWC3" name="Tilden" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140105" name="Upper Mississippi-Cape Girardeau" parent="h071401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWB4" name="Walsh" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWC1" name="Welge" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWD1" name="Willisville" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>