<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="h02080102" name="Great Wicomico-Piankatank" parent="h020801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h020801" name="Lower Chesapeake" parent="h0208" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0208" name="Lower Chesapeake" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h02" name="Mid Atlantic" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><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="q38078SEE2" name="Achilles" parent="q38078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078SEG1" name="Bethel Beach" parent="q38078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEF1" name="Burgess" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEC3" name="Church View" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078SED2" name="Clay Bank" parent="q38078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEF4" name="Deltaville" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEB2" name="Dunnsville" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078SEG2" name="East of New Point Comfort" parent="q38078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEG2" name="East of Reedville" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51057" name="Essex" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEF3" name="Fleets Bay" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51073" name="Gloucester" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078SED1" name="Gloucester" parent="q38078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEE1" name="Heathsville" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEE3" name="Irvington" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51097" name="King and Queen" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEA3" name="King and Queen Court House" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51103" name="Lancaster" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEE2" name="Lancaster" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NED2" name="Lively" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NED1" name="Lottsburg" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51115" name="Mathews" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078SEF1" name="Mathews" parent="q38078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51119" name="Middlesex" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEA2" name="Millers Tavern" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEC2" name="Morattico" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078SEF2" name="New Point Comfort" parent="q38078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51133" name="Northumberland" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEF2" name="Reedville" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51159" name="Richmond" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NED4" name="Saluda" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEC4" name="Shacklefords" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEG1" name="Smith Point" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEB3" name="Truhart" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078SEE1" name="Ware Neck" parent="q38078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38078NEE4" name="Wilton" parent="q38078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>