<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="q35088SE" name="Guntersville" parent="q35088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q35088" name="Gadsden" 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="q35088SEE4" name="Clarence" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEG1" name="Columbus City" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEB3" name="Cullman" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEF3" name="Douglas" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEB2" name="Eva" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEA2" name="Falkville" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEH4" name="Gadsden West" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEC4" name="Garden City" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEH1" name="Grove Oak" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEF2" name="Guntersville" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEE1" name="Guntersville Dam" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEB4" name="Hanceville" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEA1" name="Hartselle" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SED3" name="Holly Pond" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEG4" name="Howelton" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SED2" name="Hulaco" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEC2" name="Lawrence Cove" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEF1" name="Mount Carmel" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SED1" name="Newsome Sinks" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEH2" name="Painter" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEH3" name="Rodentown" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEC3" name="Simcoe" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEB1" name="Somerville" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEA4" name="Trimble" parent="q35088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SEA3" name="West Point" parent="q35088SE" 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="f01043" name="Cullman" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01049" name="DeKalb" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01055" name="Etowah" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01071" name="Jackson" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01089" name="Madison" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f01095" name="Marshall" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0603" name="Middle Tennessee-Elk" parent="h06" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0316" name="Mobile - Tombigbee" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f01103" name="Morgan" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>