<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="h05050006" name="Upper Kanawha" parent="h050500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h050500" name="Kanawha" parent="h0505" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0505" name="Kanawha" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h05" name="Ohio" 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="q38082NWG2" name="Beckley" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWG4" name="Beckwith" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWD3" name="Belle" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f54005" name="Boone" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWE3" name="Cedar Grove" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWD2" name="Charleston East" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWC2" name="Charleston West" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWE1" name="Dorothy" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWF2" name="Eccles" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWE4" name="Eskdale" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f54019" name="Fayette" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWG3" name="Gauley Bridge" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f54039" name="Kanawha" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWF2" name="Mammoth" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWF3" name="Montgomery" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWG1" name="Oak Hill" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWF1" name="Pax" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWF4" name="Powellton" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWE2" name="Quick" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWC3" name="Racine" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f54081" name="Raleigh" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39082SWD4" name="Sylvester" parent="q39082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>