<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="f51035" name="Carroll" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS51" name="Virginia" 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="q37082NEA2" name="Austinville" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEC4" name="Cana" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NWH2" name="Cripple Creek" parent="q37082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEA4" name="Cumberland Knob" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NED2" name="Dugspur" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEC3" name="Fancy Gap" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEB1" name="Fosters Falls" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NE" name="Galax" parent="q37082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEA3" name="Galax" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEC2" name="Hillsville" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEC1" name="Hiwassee" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NED1" name="Indian Valley" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1207" name="Jefferson National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEB4" name="Lambsburg" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NED3" name="Laurel Fork" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEE3" name="Meadows of Dan" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NED4" name="Mount Airy North" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1542" name="Mount Rogers National Recreation Area" parent="p34" scope="National Recreation Area"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEB2" name="Sylvatus" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03010103" name="Upper Dan" parent="h030101" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h05050001" name="Upper New" parent="h050500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h03040101" name="Upper Yadkin" parent="h030401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEE2" name="Willis" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEB3" name="Woodlawn" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NW" name="Wytheville" parent="q37082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>