<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="h07140103" name="Bourbeuse" parent="h071401" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h071401" name="Upper Mississippi-Meramec" parent="h0714" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0714" name="Upper Mississippi-Kaskaskia-Meramec" 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="q39092SWF3" name="Argo" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWC2" name="Belle" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f29055" name="Crawford" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWE4" name="Cuba" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38092NWC1" name="Dillon" parent="q38092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f29071" name="Franklin" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29073" name="Gasconade" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWF1" name="Gerald" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SEB1" name="Gray Summit" parent="q39092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWC3" name="High Gate" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWF4" name="Leasburg" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWG1" name="Leslie" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38092NWD1" name="Maramec Spring" parent="q38092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f29125" name="Maries" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWH3" name="Meramec State Park" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SEA1" name="Moselle" parent="q39092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWE3" name="Oak Hill" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f29151" name="Osage" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWE2" name="Owensville East" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWD2" name="Owensville West" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWB3" name="Paydown" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f29161" name="Phelps" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWD3" name="Redbird" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWD4" name="Rosati" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWE1" name="Rosebud" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWC4" name="Safe" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SEA2" name="Saint Clair" parent="q39092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWG2" name="Spring Bluff" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWH2" name="Stanton" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWF2" name="Strain" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWG3" name="Sullivan" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWB2" name="Summerfield" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWH1" name="Union" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092SWB4" name="Vichy" parent="q39092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>