<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="f19101" name="Jefferson" 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="q42094SEG4" name="Abingdon" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092SWB3" name="Brighton" parent="q42092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEH4" name="Brookville" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NW" name="Burlington" parent="q41092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NE" name="Centerville" parent="q41094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEG1" name="Eldon" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092SWA4" name="Fairfield North" parent="q42092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWA1" name="Fairfield South" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41094NEH1" name="Libertyville" parent="q41094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWC1" name="Lockridge East" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWB1" name="Lockridge West" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07100009" name="Lower Des Moines" parent="h071000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092SW" name="Muscatine" parent="q42092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEH3" name="Ollie" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SE" name="Oskaloosa" parent="q42094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEG3" name="Pekin" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092SWA3" name="Richland" parent="q42092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092SWB4" name="Salina" parent="q42092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080107" name="Skunk" parent="h070801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h07080105" name="South Skunk" parent="h070801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092SWC4" name="Trenton" parent="q42092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092SWC3" name="Wayland" parent="q42092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>