<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="h12090302" name="Lower Colorado" parent="h120903" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h120903" name="Lower Colorado" parent="h1209" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1209" name="Lower Colorado-San Bernard Coastal" parent="h12" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h12" name="Texas-Gulf" 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="q30098NEE3" name="Alleyton" parent="q30098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098NEE4" name="Altair" parent="q30098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q29096NWA1" name="Bay City" parent="q29096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q29098NEH2" name="Blessing SE" parent="q29098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEF1" name="Bonus" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098NEC3" name="Borden" parent="q30098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f48089" name="Colorado" parent="fUS48" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098NED3" name="Columbus" parent="q30098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEG4" name="Danevang" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098NEF4" name="Eagle Lake" parent="q30098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098NEF3" name="Eagle Lake NE" parent="q30098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEG1" name="Egypt" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEF3" name="El Campo" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEE1" name="Garwood" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEG2" name="Glen Flora" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEE2" name="Hahn" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEH3" name="Lane City" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEH4" name="Lane City SE" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q29098NEH1" name="Markham" parent="q29098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f48321" name="Matagorda" parent="fUS48" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q29096NWA3" name="Matagorda" parent="q29096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q29096NWA4" name="Matagorda SW" parent="q29096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEF2" name="New Taiton" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEG3" name="Pierce" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWA3" name="Pledger" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098NED4" name="Rock Island" parent="q30098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098NEC4" name="Sawmill Branch" parent="q30098NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30096SWA4" name="Van Vleck" parent="q30096SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q29096NWA2" name="Wadsworth" parent="q29096NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f48481" name="Wharton" parent="fUS48" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q30098SEH2" name="Wharton" parent="q30098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>