<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="h07090006" name="Kishwaukee" parent="h070900" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h070900" name="Rock" parent="h0709" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0709" name="Rock" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h07" name="Upper Mississippi" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term 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parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEA3" name="Cherry Valley" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEA1" name="Creston" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEF3" name="Crystal Lake" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEB1" name="De Kalb" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17037" name="DeKalb" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEE1" name="Elburn" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEF4" name="Elgin" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEA4" name="Fairdale" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEC2" name="Garden Prairie" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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name="Rockford North" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWH3" name="Rockford South" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090NEC4" name="Sharon" parent="q43090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEC1" name="Sycamore" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f55127" name="Walworth" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090NED4" name="Walworth" parent="q43090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEB2" name="Waterman" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17201" name="Winnebago" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEE2" name="Woodstock" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>