<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="f19007" name="Appanoose" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS19" name="Iowa" 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="h07110001" name="Bear-Wyaconda" parent="h071100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEC1" name="Blakesburg" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NE" name="Centerville" parent="q41094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEB3" name="Centerville East" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEA3" name="Centerville West" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEC4" name="Coatsville" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEB2" name="Hiattsville" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEA1" name="Iconium" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NWH4" name="Lake Thunderhead" parent="q41094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NW" name="Leon" parent="q41094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07100009" name="Lower Des Moines" parent="h071000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h10280103" name="Lower Grand" parent="h102801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NWH1" name="Melrose" parent="q41094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEA4" name="Mendota" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEB1" name="Moravia" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEC3" name="Moulton" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEA2" name="Mystic" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07110002" name="North Fabius" parent="h071100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEB4" name="Omaha" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NWH2" name="Plano" parent="q41094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p429" name="Rathbun Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NWH3" name="Seymour East" parent="q41094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEC2" name="Unionville" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h10280201" name="Upper Chariton" parent="h102802" scope="hydrologic unit"/></rt></descriptor>