<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="f54053" name="Mason" 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="q39084NEG1" name="Addison" parent="q39084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39084NEG3" name="Apple Grove" parent="q39084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39084NEH3" name="Arlee" parent="q39084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39084NEH2" name="Beech Hill" parent="q39084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39084NEH1" name="Cheshire" parent="q39084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40082SWA4" name="Chester" parent="q40082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><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="q39084NEG2" name="Gallipolis" parent="q39084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39084NEG4" name="Glenwood" parent="q39084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39084SE" name="Huntington" parent="q39084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39084SEH1" name="Hurricane" parent="q39084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39084NE" name="Ironton" parent="q39084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05070102" name="Lower Guyandotte" parent="h050701" scope="hydrologic unit"/><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="q39084NEH4" name="Mount Olive" parent="q39084NE" 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="q40084SEH4" name="Pomeroy" parent="q40084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05090101" name="Raccoon-Symmes" parent="h050901" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NW" name="Ripley" parent="q39082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082NWA3" name="Robertsburg" parent="q39082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05030202" name="Upper Ohio-Shade" parent="h050302" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40084SE" name="Wellston" parent="q40084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>