<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="h07060002" name="Upper Iowa" parent="h070600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h070600" name="Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum" parent="h0706" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0706" name="Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h07" name="Upper Mississippi" 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="q44094NEC4" name="Adams" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19005" name="Allamakee" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWA1" name="Bluffton" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWB1" name="Burr Oak" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWB3" name="Calmar" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f27045" name="Fillmore" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWA3" name="Fort Atkinson" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWD3" name="Frankville" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWC2" name="Freeport" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEG4" name="Greenleafton" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWD2" name="Hanover" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094NEH4" name="Harmony" parent="q44094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWC1" name="Highlandville" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f27055" name="Houston" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19089" name="Howard" parent="fUS19" 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1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NWF4" name="Reno" parent="q44092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWA2" name="Ridgeway" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NWC4" name="Spring Grove" parent="q44092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWE2" name="Waukon" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092SWE1" name="Waukon NW" parent="q44092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44092NWD4" name="Wilmington" parent="q44092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19191" name="Winneshiek" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>