<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="f19011" name="Benton" 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="q42092NWB2" name="Amana" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SW" name="Anamosa" parent="q43092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEF1" name="Belle Plaine" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEH1" name="Blairstown" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEH2" name="Brandon" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWB3" name="Center Point" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWA3" name="Center Point NW" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWA4" name="Center Point SW" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWA2" name="Cheney" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEF3" name="Dysart" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEF2" name="Eagle Center" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEF4" name="Elberon" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWB1" name="Fairfax" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEG3" name="Garrison" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NE" name="Grinnell" parent="q42094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEF2" name="Hartwick" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NW" name="Iowa City" parent="q42092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEG4" name="Keystone North" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEG1" name="Keystone South" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEG2" name="La Porte City" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEG2" name="Ladora" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEH2" name="Marengo" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SE" name="Marshalltown" parent="q43094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWA2" name="Middle Amana" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080205" name="Middle Cedar" parent="h070802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080208" name="Middle Iowa" parent="h070802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWA1" name="Newhall" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWB4" name="Shellsburg" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEH4" name="Van Horne" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEH3" name="Vinton" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWB2" name="Walker" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>