<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="h03010106" name="Roanoke Rapids" 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="q37078NWC4" name="Barley" parent="q37078NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NEF3" name="Baskerville" parent="q37080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NEE3" name="Boydton" parent="q37080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NEG4" name="Bracey" parent="q37080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51025" name="Brunswick" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NEE2" name="Chase City" parent="q37080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078NWA4" name="Gasburg" parent="q37078NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f37083" name="Halifax" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NEF4" name="John H Kerr Dam" parent="q37080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p342" name="John H. Kerr Reservoir" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NEH3" name="La Crosse" parent="q37080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078SWA1" name="Littleton" parent="q37078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080SEH1" name="Macon" parent="q37080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f51117" name="Mecklenburg" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080SEF1" name="Middleburg" parent="q37080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NEG2" name="North View" parent="q37080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f37131" name="Northampton" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078SWC1" name="Roanoke Rapids" parent="q37078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NEG3" name="South Hill" parent="q37080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NEH4" name="South Hill SE" parent="q37080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078SWB1" name="Thelma" parent="q37078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078NWB4" name="Valentines" parent="q37078NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f37181" name="Vance" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37185" name="Warren" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080SEG1" name="Warrenton" parent="q37080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078NWA3" name="White Plains" parent="q37078NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37080NEF2" name="Wightman" parent="q37080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>