<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="f48157" name="Fort Bend" parent="fUS48" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS48" name="Texas" 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="q30096NWD3" name="Alief" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NWE4" name="Almeda" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SW" name="Angleton" parent="q30096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h12040205" name="Austin-Oyster" parent="h120402" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWA2" name="Boling" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NWA2" name="Brookshire" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h12040104" name="Buffalo-San Jacinto" parent="h120401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NWC3" name="Clodine" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWC2" name="Damon" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098NE" name="Eagle Lake" parent="q30098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098NEH4" name="East Bernard" parent="q30098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SE" name="El Campo" parent="q30098" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NWA3" name="Fulshear" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWB2" name="Guy" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NW" name="Houston" parent="q30096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEH1" name="Hungerford" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWE1" name="Juliff" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NWB2" name="Katy" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWA1" name="Kendleton" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h12070104" name="Lower Brazos" parent="h120701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NWD4" name="Missouri City" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWB1" name="Needville" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NWA4" name="Orchard" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWD2" name="Otey" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NWB4" name="Richmond" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NWB3" name="Richmond NE" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h12090401" name="San Bernard" parent="h120904" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWC1" name="Smithers Lake" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096NWC4" name="Sugar Land" parent="q30096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWD1" name="Thompsons" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098NEH3" name="Wallis" parent="q30098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h12040204" name="West Galveston Bay" parent="h120402" scope="hydrologic unit"/></rt></descriptor>