<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="q34088NE" name="Birmingham North" parent="q34088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q34088" name="Birmingham" 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" 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NED1" name="Cleveland" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEE4" name="Cooks Springs" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEG2" name="Cox Gap" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEA2" name="Creel" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEH1" name="Dunaway Mountain" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEH4" name="Eastaboga" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEH3" name="Francis Mill" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEB3" name="Gardendale" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEF1" name="Hyatt Gap" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEG4" name="Riverside" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEE2" name="Springville" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEG1" name="Steele" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEC2" name="Trafford" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEB2" name="Warrior" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEF3" name="Wattsville" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="h0315" name="Alabama" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f01009" name="Blount" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01015" name="Calhoun" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01043" name="Cullman" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term 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