<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="h07060005" name="Apple-Plum" 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="q42092NEF1" name="Andover" parent="q42092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SED3" name="Andrew" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEH4" name="Apple River" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEE2" name="Bellevue" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEF3" name="Belmont" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 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parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEB4" name="Sherrill" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEG4" name="Shullsburg" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090NWA4" name="South Wayne" parent="q43090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEE3" name="Springbrook" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17177" name="Stephenson" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEH2" name="Stockton" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NEH1" name="Thomson" parent="q42092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2027" name="Upper Mississippi River Wildlife And Fish Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEH4" name="Wacker" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 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