<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="h03170006" name="Pascagoula" parent="h031700" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h031700" name="Pascagoula. Mississippi" parent="h0317" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0317" name="Pascagoula" 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="q31090NED2" name="Agricola" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEB1" name="Avent" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEA1" name="Barbara" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEC2" name="Basin" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEB2" name="Benndale" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1180" name="DeSoto National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEC3" name="Easen Hill" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090SEC1" name="Gautier North" parent="q31090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090SEC2" name="Gautier South" parent="q31090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f28039" name="George" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28041" name="Greene" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NED3" name="Harleston" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEE3" name="Hurley" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f28059" name="Jackson" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEB4" name="Latimer" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NED1" name="Lucedale" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32090SEB4" name="Mclain" parent="q32090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEC1" name="Merrill" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1863" name="Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090SED1" name="Pascagoula North" parent="q31090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090SED2" name="Pascagoula South" parent="q31090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f28111" name="Perry" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q32090SEA4" name="Taylor Hill" parent="q32090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NED4" name="Three Rivers" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEC4" name="Vancleave" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEB3" name="Vestry" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>