<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="f51071" name="Giles" 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="q38082SW" name="Bluefield" parent="q38082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p248" name="Bluestone Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SED2" name="Eggleston" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SED1" name="Interior" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1207" name="Jefferson National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEA1" name="Lerona" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEC1" name="Lindside" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEA3" name="Mechanicsburg" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05050002" name="Middle New" parent="h050500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p2638" name="Mountain Lake Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEB2" name="Narrows" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEE2" name="Newport" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEA2" name="Oakvale" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEC2" name="Pearisburg" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2660" name="Peters Mountain Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEB1" name="Peterstown" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWH2" name="Princeton" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SE" name="Radford" parent="q38082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SED3" name="Radford North" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEC3" name="Staffordsville" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h02080201" name="Upper James" parent="h020802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h05050001" name="Upper New" parent="h050500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEE1" name="Waiteville" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SEB3" name="White Gate" parent="q38082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>