<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="q34088SE" name="Birmingham South" 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="q34088SEC2" name="Chelsea" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEF2" name="Childersburg" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SED3" name="Columbiana" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEH4" name="Goodwater" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEA2" name="Greenwood" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEE2" name="Harpersville" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEB2" name="Helena" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEG4" name="Hollins" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEF1" name="Laniers" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SED1" name="Vandiver" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEE1" name="Vincent" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEF4" name="Weogufka" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SED2" name="Westover" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEE3" name="Wilsonville" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEG2" name="Winterboro" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="h0315" name="Alabama" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f01007" name="Bibb" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01021" name="Chilton" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01027" name="Clay" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01037" name="Coosa" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01073" name="Jefferson" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0316" name="Mobile - Tombigbee" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f01115" name="Saint Clair" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01117" name="Shelby" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01121" name="Talladega" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01123" name="Tallapoosa" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>