<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="h07140106" name="Big Muddy" 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" 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2655" name="Panther Den Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWD4" name="Percy" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17145" name="Perry" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWE4" name="Pinckneyville" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NEB2" name="Pittsburg" parent="q38090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWF3" name="Pomona" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWF4" name="Pyatts" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWD2" name="Raddle" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17157" name="Randolph" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="p431" name="Rend Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term 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scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWF1" name="Vergennes" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWH1" name="Walnut Hill" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWH3" name="Waltonville" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17189" name="Washington" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NEA1" name="West Frankfort" parent="q38090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17199" name="Williamson" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWD1" name="Willisville" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWE3" name="Winkle" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWE4" name="Wolf Lake" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWH2" name="Woodlawn" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>