<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="h08080202" name="Mermentau" parent="h080802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h080802" name="Calcasieu - Mermentau" parent="h0808" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0808" name="Louisiana Coastal" parent="h08" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h08" name="Lower 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="q30094NEG1" name="Abbeville West" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f22001" name="Acadia" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEC4" name="Big Constance Lake" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NWH1" name="Boudreaux Lake" parent="q30094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f22019" name="Calcasieu" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22023" name="Cameron" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="p1663" name="Cameron Prarie National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEB2" name="Catfish Lake" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEG4" name="Cheniere Au Tigre" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEC2" name="Collicon Lake" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEB3" name="Cow Island" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEB4" name="Cow Island Oe S" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NWH2" name="Creole" parent="q30094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEF3" name="Crowley East" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEE3" name="Crowley West" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEC3" name="Deep Lake" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEG3" name="Duson" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEC1" name="Elton" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEG3" name="Fearman Lake" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEA2" name="Fenton" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NED3" name="Floating Turf Bayou" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEF2" name="Forked Island" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEE1" name="Forked Island NW" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NWG2" name="Grand Bayou" parent="q30094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEA2" name="Grand Chenier" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SED4" name="Gueydan" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NWH3" name="Hackberry Beach" parent="q30094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEC2" name="Hathaway" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEA4" name="Hayes" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEH4" name="Hell Hole Bayou" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEA3" name="Hog Bayou" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEG2" name="Intracoastal City" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SWH3" name="Iowa" parent="q31094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEE2" name="Jacks Point Island" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f22053" name="Jefferson Davis" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEC3" name="Jennings" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEF4" name="Kaplan North" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEF1" name="Kaplan South" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEA3" name="Lacassine" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1794" name="Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="p2819" name="Lacassine Wilderness" parent="p20" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="f22055" name="Lafayette" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEC4" name="Lake Arthur" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SWH4" name="Lake Charles SE" parent="q31094SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NED2" name="Lake Le Bleu" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEA1" name="Lake Misere" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEB1" name="Latania Lake" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NED1" name="Latanier Bayou" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEG4" name="Leroy" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEC1" name="Mallard Bay" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SED3" name="Mermentau" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEG2" name="Mire" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEF4" name="Mulberry Island East" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEE4" name="Mulberry Island West" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEE3" name="Pecan Island" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NEF3" name="Pumpkin Islands" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NED4" name="Rollover Lake" parent="q30094NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1939" name="Sabine National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="f22097" name="Saint Landry" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094NWG1" name="Sweet Lake" parent="q30094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEB4" name="Thornwell" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f22113" name="Vermilion" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEB2" name="Welsh North" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEB3" name="Welsh South" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094SEE4" name="Wright" parent="q31094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>