<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="h07080204" name="West Fork Cedar" parent="h070802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h070802" name="Iowa" 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="q43094NWH3" name="Ackley NE" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWE2" name="Alexander" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEB2" name="Allison" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEA1" name="Aureola" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19013" name="Black Hawk" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19017" name="Bremer" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWF4" name="Burchinal" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19023" name="Butler" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEB3" name="Butler Center" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19033" name="Cerro Gordo" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEC2" name="Clarksville" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEC3" name="Coster" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWF3" name="Coulter" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWH1" name="Dougherty" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWE3" name="Dows East" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEA2" name="Dumont North" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEA3" name="Dumont South" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19069" name="Franklin" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWD1" name="Goodell" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWG2" name="Hampton North" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWG3" name="Hampton South" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19081" name="Hancock" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWG4" name="Hanford" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWH2" name="Hansell" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWF4" name="Iowa Falls West" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWF2" name="Latimer" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NED4" name="New Hartford" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEB4" name="Parkersburg" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWE4" name="Popejoy" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWG1" name="Sheffield" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NED3" name="Shell Rock" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NEC4" name="Stout" parent="q43094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWF1" name="Swaledale" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWE1" name="Thornton" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44094SWE4" name="Ventura Heights" parent="q44094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f19197" name="Wright" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>