<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="f54035" name="Jackson" 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="q39082NWB2" name="Cottageville" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWB3" name="Elmwood" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWD2" name="Gay" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWC3" name="Kenna" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWD3" name="Kentuck" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05030203" name="Little Kanawha" parent="h050302" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWD1" name="Liverpool" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05050008" name="Lower Kanawha" parent="h050500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWA2" name="Mount Alto" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWA1" name="New Haven" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40082SW" name="Parkersburg" parent="q40082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40082SWC4" name="Pond Creek" parent="q40082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40082SWB4" name="Portland" parent="q40082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWB1" name="Ravenswood" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NW" name="Ripley" parent="q39082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWC2" name="Ripley" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40082SWD4" name="Rockport" parent="q40082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWD4" name="Romance" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWC1" name="Sandyville" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWC4" name="Sissonville" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05030202" name="Upper Ohio-Shade" parent="h050302" scope="hydrologic unit"/></rt></descriptor>