<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="h07140202" name="Middle Kaskaskia" parent="h071402" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h071402" name="Kaskaskia" 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="p264" name="Carlyle Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWH4" name="Centralia East" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWG4" name="Centralia West" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17021" name="Christian" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17027" name="Clinton" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17049" name="Effingham" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SED3" name="Effingham North" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWH3" name="Fairman" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17051" name="Fayette" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWF4" name="Fillmore" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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code="q39090NWF2" name="Pleasant Mound" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWH3" name="Ramsey" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWG3" name="Ramsey Lake" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NEA2" name="Saint Paul" parent="q39090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NEA3" name="Salem North" parent="q39090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NEA4" name="Salem South" parent="q39090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17173" name="Shelby" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEC3" name="Shumway" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SED2" name="Stewardson East" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SEC2" name="Stewardson West" parent="q40090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWE3" name="Stolletown" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWH1" name="Vandalia" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWH4" name="Vera" parent="q40090SW" 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="f17189" name="Washington" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWG2" name="Wildcat Lake" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>