<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="f54005" name="Boone" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS54" name="West 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="q38082NWB2" name="Amherstdale" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NW" name="Beckley" parent="q38082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWD3" name="Belle" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SW" name="Charleston" parent="q39082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWB1" name="Clothier" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05050009" name="Coal" parent="h050500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWE1" name="Dorothy" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWE4" name="Eskdale" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWA3" name="Griffithsville" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWA1" name="Henlawson" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWB3" name="Julian" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWC2" name="Lorado" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05070102" name="Lower Guyandotte" parent="h050701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWB4" name="Madison" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWA4" name="Mud" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWD2" name="Pilot Knob" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWC3" name="Racine" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWD4" name="Sylvester" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05070101" name="Upper Guyandotte" parent="h050701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h05050006" name="Upper Kanawha" parent="h050500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWC1" name="Wharton" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWD1" name="Whitesville" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWC4" name="Williams Mountain" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>