<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="f17173" name="Shelby" 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="q40090NWH4" name="Assumption" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEB3" name="Beecher City" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NEB3" name="Dalton City" parent="q40090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NE" name="Decatur" parent="q40090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SE" name="Effingham" parent="q40090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SED3" name="Effingham North" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEB2" name="Fancher" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NEB4" name="Findlay" parent="q40090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEA3" name="Herrick" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NEC4" name="Kirksville" parent="q40090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p369" name="Lake Shelbyville" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEA2" name="Lakewood" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SW" name="Litchfield" parent="q40090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05120114" name="Little Wabash" parent="h051201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NEA3" name="Macon East" parent="q40090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NWH3" name="Macon West" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEE1" name="Mattoon West" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140202" name="Middle Kaskaskia" parent="h071402" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEC1" name="Middlesworth" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEE2" name="Neoga" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NEA4" name="Obed" parent="q40090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWH2" name="Oconee" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWG2" name="Ohlman" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWH1" name="Pana" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWH3" name="Ramsey" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWG3" name="Ramsey Lake" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEB1" name="Shelbyville" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEC3" name="Shumway" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07130007" name="South Fork Sangamon" parent="h071300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NW" name="Springfield" parent="q40090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SED2" name="Stewardson East" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEC2" name="Stewardson West" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NED4" name="Sullivan" parent="q40090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEE3" name="Teutopolis" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEA1" name="Tower Hill" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140201" name="Upper Kaskaskia" parent="h071402" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SED1" name="Windsor" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>