<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="f19013" name="Black Hawk" 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="q43094SEH2" name="Brandon" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEE2" name="Buckingham" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEE4" name="Cedar Falls" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEF3" name="Denver" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEG4" name="Dunkerton" parent="q43094NE" 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="q43094NEH3" name="Fairbank" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEG1" name="Gilbertville" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEE1" name="Hudson" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEH1" name="Jesup" parent="q43094SE" 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="q43094NEH4" name="Littleton" parent="q43094NE" 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="h07080205" name="Middle Cedar" parent="h070802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NED4" name="New Hartford" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEG3" name="Readlyn" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SED2" name="Reinbeck" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080202" name="Shell Rock" parent="h070802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NED3" name="Shell Rock" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080201" name="Upper Cedar" parent="h070802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080102" name="Upper Wapsipinicon" parent="h070801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEF4" name="Waterloo North" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEF1" name="Waterloo South" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NE" name="Waverly" parent="q43094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEE3" name="Waverly" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080204" name="West Fork Cedar" parent="h070802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SED1" name="Zaneta" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>