<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="f17181" name="Union" 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="q38090SWG1" name="Anna" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2414" name="Bald Knob Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140106" name="Big Muddy" parent="h071401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140108" name="Cache" parent="h071401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SW" name="Cape Girardeau" parent="q38090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NW" name="Carbondale" parent="q38090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2474" name="Clear Springs Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWF4" name="Cobden" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1693" name="Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="p2805" name="Crab Orchard Wilderness" parent="p20" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWH2" name="Cypress" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1702" name="Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWG2" name="Dongola" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWF1" name="Jonesboro" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWH4" name="Lick Creek" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05140206" name="Lower Ohio" parent="h051402" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWG4" name="Makanda" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWE2" name="Mcclure" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWF2" name="Mill Creek" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWH1" name="Mount Pleasant" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWD4" name="Neelys Landing" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2655" name="Panther Den Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="p1267" name="Shawnee National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="h07140105" name="Upper Mississippi-Cape Girardeau" parent="h071401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWE1" name="Ware" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWE4" name="Wolf Lake" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>