<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="h03070202" name="Little Satilla" parent="h030702" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h030702" name="St. Marys - Satilla" parent="h0307" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0307" name="Altamaha - St. Marys" 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="q32084NEE4" name="Alma" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEF3" name="Alma NE" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEE3" name="Alma NW" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEH2" name="Altamaha SE" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEG2" name="Altamaha SW" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f13001" name="Appling" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f13005" name="Bacon" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEF2" name="Baxley" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084SEG2" name="Blackshear East" parent="q32084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f13025" name="Brantley" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEF4" name="Coffee" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NED2" name="Hazlehurst South" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32082SWA2" name="Hortense" parent="q32082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f13161" name="Jeff Davis" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q32082NWA3" name="Jesup NW" parent="q32082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32082NWA4" name="Jesup West" parent="q32082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEG4" name="K'Ville" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32082SWA1" name="Mckinnon" parent="q32082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084SEF1" name="Mershon" parent="q32084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NED3" name="Nicholls NE" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEH3" name="Odum" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084SEG1" name="Patterson" parent="q32084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084SEH2" name="Patterson SE" parent="q32084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f13229" name="Pierce" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEE2" name="Pine Grove" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEH4" name="Ritch" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084SEH1" name="Screven" parent="q32084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32084NEG3" name="Surrency" parent="q32084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f13305" name="Wayne" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>