<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="h07080106" name="North Skunk" parent="h070801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h070801" name="Upper Mississippi-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" parent="h0708" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0708" name="Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" 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="q42094NEA2" name="Alloway Creek" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEE4" name="Barnes City" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NWG2" name="Baxter" parent="q42094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NWH2" name="Baxter SE" parent="q42094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEF2" name="Delta" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEE1" name="Gibson" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEC2" name="Grinnell North" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEC3" name="Grinnell South" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEH2" name="Harper" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19099" name="Jasper" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEA3" name="Kellogg" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19107" name="Keokuk" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEG1" name="Keswick" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEA4" name="Killduff" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEA1" name="Laurel" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19123" name="Mahaska" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NED3" name="Malcom" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19127" name="Marshall" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NWH1" name="Melbourne" parent="q42094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NED4" name="Montezuma" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEC1" name="New Sharon" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEB2" name="Newburg" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NWH3" name="Newton" parent="q42094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEB3" name="Oakland Acres" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEH3" name="Ollie" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEB1" name="Peoria" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19157" name="Poweshiek" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NWG1" name="Rhodes" parent="q42094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEE2" name="Rose Hill" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEC4" name="Searsboro" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEG2" name="Sigourney" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEH1" name="South English" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SWG4" name="State Center" parent="q43094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19169" name="Story" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094NEB4" name="Sully" parent="q42094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SED1" name="Union Mills" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SED2" name="University Park" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEF1" name="What Cheer" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>