<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="f19083" name="Hardin" 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="q43094NWH4" name="Ackley" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SW" name="Ames" parent="q43094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWF1" name="Buckeye East" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWE1" name="Buckeye West" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWH2" name="Eldora" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWF2" name="Hubbard" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NW" name="Iowa Falls" parent="q43094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWG4" name="Iowa Falls East" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWF4" name="Iowa Falls West" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWE3" name="Mccallsburg" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080205" name="Middle Cedar" parent="h070802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWG2" name="New Providence" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWG1" name="Owasa" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWE4" name="Popejoy" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWE2" name="Radcliffe" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWD4" name="Sheldon Creek" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080105" name="South Skunk" parent="h070801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWG3" name="State Center NW" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWH1" name="Steamboat Rock" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWH3" name="Union" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080207" name="Upper Iowa" parent="h070802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWF3" name="Zearing" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>