<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="h0601" name="Upper Tennessee" parent="h06" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h06" name="Tennessee" 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><nt><term thcode="1" code="h060101" name="French Broad-Holston" parent="h0601" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h060102" name="Upper Tennessee" parent="h0601" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q36084NE" name="Asheville" parent="q36084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SW" name="Bluefield" parent="q38082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SW" name="Boone" parent="q37082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NE" name="Bristol" parent="q37084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36086SE" name="Cleveland" parent="q36086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37086SW" name="Cookeville" parent="q37086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36084SW" name="Fontana Lake" parent="q36084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS13" name="Georgia" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q36084SE" name="Hendersonville" parent="q36084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NW" name="Hickory" parent="q36082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084SE" name="Johnson City" parent="q37084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS21" name="Kentucky" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q36084NW" name="Knoxville" parent="q36084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36086NW" name="Mc Minnville" parent="q36086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NW" name="Middlesboro" parent="q37084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084SW" name="Morristown" parent="q37084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS37" name="North Carolina" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q37086SE" name="Oak Ridge" parent="q37086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38084SE" name="Pikeville" parent="q38084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS45" name="South Carolina" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS47" name="Tennessee" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084NW" name="Toccoa" parent="q35084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS51" name="Virginia" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q36086NE" name="Watts Bar Lake" parent="q36086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS54" name="West Virginia" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082NW" name="Wytheville" parent="q37082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>