<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="f45001" name="Abbeville" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS45" name="South Carolina" 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="q35084SE" name="Abbeville" parent="q35084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEF3" name="Abbeville East" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEE3" name="Abbeville West" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SED2" name="Antreville" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEE4" name="Calhoun Creek" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SED4" name="Calhoun Falls" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEE2" name="Due West" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEG3" name="Greenwood" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEC4" name="Heardmont" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEE1" name="Honea Path" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEC2" name="Iva" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p339" name="J. Strom Thurmond Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SED3" name="Latimer" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEC3" name="Lowndesville" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p432" name="Richard B. Russell Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="h03050109" name="Saluda" parent="h030501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEF2" name="Shoals Junction" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1276" name="Sumter National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="h03060103" name="Upper Savannah" parent="h030601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEF4" name="Verdery" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEG1" name="Ware Shoals East" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084SEF1" name="Ware Shoals West" parent="q35084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>