<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="h03030005" name="Lower Cape Fear" parent="h030300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h030300" name="Cape Fear" parent="h0303" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0303" name="Cape Fear" 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="q35080NEC4" name="Abbottsburg" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEG2" name="Acme" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NED2" name="Ammon" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NEC1" name="Autryville" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f37017" name="Bladen" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEG4" name="Bolivia" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f37019" name="Brunswick" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q34080NXA2" name="Cape Fear" parent="q34080NX" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34080NEH2" name="Cape Fear Oe W" parent="q34080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35078SWA4" name="Carolina Beach" parent="q35078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35078SWA2" name="Castle Hayne" parent="q35078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NEB1" name="Cedar Creek" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f37047" name="Columbus" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEE1" name="Council" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f37051" name="Cumberland" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NEB2" name="Duart" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NEC3" name="Dublin" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NED3" name="Elizabethtown North" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NED4" name="Elizabethtown South" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEF2" name="Freeman" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEH4" name="Funston" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEF3" name="Honey Island" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NEA1" name="Hope Mills" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NEC2" name="Jerome" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEF1" name="Kelly" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34080NXA1" name="Kure Beach" parent="q34080NX" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEE2" name="Lake Waccamaw East" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEH2" name="Leland" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEG3" name="Lewis Swamp" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p595" name="Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><term thcode="1" code="f37129" name="New Hanover" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37141" name="Pender" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEG1" name="Point Caswell" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NED1" name="Roseboro" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NEA2" name="Saint Pauls" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NEE4" name="Singletary Lake" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34080NEH1" name="Southport" parent="q34080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NEB3" name="Tar Heel" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080NEE3" name="White Lake" parent="q35080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35078SWA3" name="Wilmington" parent="q35078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080SEH3" name="Winnabow" parent="q35080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35078SWB3" name="Wrightsville Beach" parent="q35078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>