<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="q31090NE" name="Mobile" parent="q31090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q31090" name="Mobile" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="qroot" name="USGS Quadrangles" parent="fUS" scope="quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS" name="United States" parent="fLD10" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" 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name="Chickasaw" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEG1" name="Chunchula" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEH1" name="Creola" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEE1" name="Earlville" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEC3" name="Easen Hill" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEF1" name="Georgetown" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NED3" name="Harleston" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEH4" name="Hollingers Island" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEE2" name="Howell" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEE3" name="Hurley" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEG2" name="Kushla" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEB4" name="Latimer" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NED1" name="Lucedale" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEC1" name="Merrill" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEH3" name="Mobile" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEA2" name="Ramsey Springs" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEF4" name="Saint Elmo" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEF2" name="Semmes" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEG3" name="Spring Hill" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEF3" name="Tanner Williams" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEG4" name="Theodore" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NED4" name="Three Rivers" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEC4" name="Vancleave" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEB3" name="Vestry" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NEA4" name="White Plains" parent="q31090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f01003" name="Baldwin" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28039" name="George" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28041" name="Greene" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28047" name="Harrison" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28059" name="Jackson" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01097" name="Mobile" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0316" name="Mobile - Tombigbee" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0317" name="Pascagoula" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f28111" name="Perry" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28131" name="Stone" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>