<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="q34086NW" name="Anniston" parent="q34086" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q34086" name="Atlanta" 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 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thcode="1" code="q34086NWH4" name="Carrollton" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWC3" name="Choccolocco" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWB1" name="Colvin Gap" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWH2" name="Draketown" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWA3" name="Eulaton" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWG1" name="Felton" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWE3" name="Fruithurst" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWA1" name="Glencoe" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWD3" name="Heflin" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWE4" name="Hightower" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWC4" name="Hollis Crossroads" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWC2" name="Jacksonville East" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWB2" name="Jacksonville West" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWA4" name="Munford" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWE2" name="Oak Level" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWB4" name="Oxford" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWD1" name="Piedmont" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWC1" name="Piedmont NW" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWD2" name="Piedmont SE" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWH1" name="Rockmart South" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWD4" name="Ross Mountain" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWF2" name="Tallapoosa North" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWF3" name="Tallapoosa South" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWH3" name="Temple" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34086NWA2" name="Wellington" parent="q34086NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="h0315" name="Alabama" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0313" name="Apalachicola" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f01015" name="Calhoun" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f13045" name="Carroll" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01019" name="Cherokee" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01029" name="Cleburne" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01055" name="Etowah" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f13143" name="Haralson" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f13223" name="Paulding" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f13233" name="Polk" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01111" name="Randolph" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01121" name="Talladega" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>