<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="h03170009" name="Mississippi Coastal" 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="q31090NWH3" name="Airey" parent="q31090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32090SWD4" name="Baxterville" parent="q32090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090SWF2" name="Bay Saint Louis" parent="q31090SW" scope="quadrangle 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name="Ocean Springs" parent="q31090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NWD1" name="Orvisburg" parent="q31090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><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="q31090SWG2" name="Pass Christian" parent="q31090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f28109" name="Pearl River" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090SEE3" name="Petit Bois Island" parent="q31090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090SEF3" name="Petit Bois Pass" parent="q31090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NWC4" name="Picayune" parent="q31090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NWD2" name="Poplarville" parent="q31090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEF4" name="Saint Elmo" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090SWE3" name="Saint Joe Pass" parent="q31090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NWE3" name="Savannah" parent="q31090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NWF4" name="Sellers" parent="q31090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090SEA3" name="Ship Island" parent="q31090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NWF3" name="Silver Run" parent="q31090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f28131" name="Stone" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NWH4" name="Success" parent="q31090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEG4" name="Theodore" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEC4" 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