<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="q36082NW" name="Hickory" parent="q36082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q36082" name="Charlotte" 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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code="q36082NWC1" name="Collettsville" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWH4" name="Denver" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWD2" name="Drexel" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWB4" name="Dysartsville" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWF1" name="Ellendale" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWB3" name="Glen Alpine" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWA4" name="Glenwood" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWE2" name="Granite Falls" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWF3" name="Hickory" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWH1" name="Hiddenite" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWE1" name="Kings Creek" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWD1" name="Lenoir" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWA1" name="Linville Falls" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWE3" name="Longview" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWG4" name="Maiden" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWA3" name="Marion East" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWG2" name="Millersville" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWC2" name="Morganton North" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWC3" name="Morganton South" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWG3" name="Newton" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWB2" name="Oak Hill" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWF4" name="Reepsville" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWH2" name="Stony Point" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWG1" name="Taylorsville" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082NWD3" name="Valdese" parent="q36082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f37003" name="Alexander" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37011" name="Avery" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37023" name="Burke" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37027" name="Caldwell" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37035" name="Catawba" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37045" name="Cleveland" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0305" name="Edisto-Santee" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f37097" name="Iredell" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37109" name="Lincoln" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37111" name="McDowell" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37121" name="Mitchell" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0304" name="Pee Dee" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f37161" name="Rutherford" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0601" name="Upper Tennessee" parent="h06" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f37193" name="Wilkes" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>