<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="h03010103" name="Upper Dan" parent="h030101" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h030101" name="Roanoke" parent="h0301" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0301" name="Chowan-Roanoke" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h03" name="South Atlantic-Gulf" 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="q37080NWC3" name="Axton" parent="q37080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SEH1" name="Ayersville" parent="q37082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NWA2" name="Bassett" parent="q37080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SEH3" name="Belews Creek" parent="q37082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SEH2" name="Belews Lake" parent="q37082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080SWA2" name="Ellisboro" parent="q37080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEG1" name="Endicott" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEH1" name="Ferrum" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51063" name="Floyd" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEF1" name="Floyd" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f37067" name="Forsyth" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51067" name="Franklin" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37081" name="Guilford" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SEF1" name="Hanging Rock" parent="q37082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51089" name="Henry" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SEH4" name="Kernersville" 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name="Southwest Eden" parent="q37080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEH4" name="Spencer" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f37169" name="Stokes" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEF3" name="Stuart" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEF4" name="Stuart SE" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080SWA3" name="Summerfield" parent="q37080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f37171" name="Surry" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SEG3" name="Walkertown" parent="q37082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SEG2" name="Walnut Cove" parent="q37082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NWD3" name="Whitmell" parent="q37080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEE2" name="Willis" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NEF2" name="Woolwine" parent="q37082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>