<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="q37082SW" name="Boone" parent="q37082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q37082" name="Winston-salem" 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 thcode="1" code="fLD10" name="North America" parent="fLD" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD" name="Land" parent="root" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="root" name="Earth" scope="Common geographic areas focused on the US"/></bt><nt><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWC1" name="Baldwin Gap" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWF4" name="Boomer" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWC3" name="Boone" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWD4" name="Buffalo Cove" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWD3" name="Deep Gap" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWA1" name="Doe" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWA2" name="Elk Mills" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWA3" name="Elk Park" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWH4" name="Gilreath" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWH1" name="Glade Valley" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWE2" name="Glendale Springs" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWC4" name="Globe" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWB4" name="Grandfather Mountain" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWE4" name="Grandin" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWF2" name="Horse Gap" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWE1" name="Jefferson" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWF1" name="Laurel Springs" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWE3" name="Maple Springs" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWG2" name="Mcgrady" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWG4" name="Moravian Falls" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWB1" name="Mountain City" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWA4" name="Newland" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWF3" name="Purlear" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWH3" name="Roaring River" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWB2" name="Sherwood" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWD2" name="Todd" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWH2" name="Traphill" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWB3" name="Valle Crucis" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWD1" name="Warrensville" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWG1" name="Whitehead" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWG3" name="Wilkesboro" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37082SWC2" name="Zionville" parent="q37082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f37003" name="Alexander" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37005" name="Alleghany" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37009" name="Ashe" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37011" name="Avery" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37027" name="Caldwell" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f47019" name="Carter" parent="fUS47" 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="f47091" name="Johnson" parent="fUS47" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0505" name="Kanawha" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0304" name="Pee Dee" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f47163" name="Sullivan" parent="fUS47" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0601" name="Upper Tennessee" parent="h06" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f37189" name="Watauga" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f37193" name="Wilkes" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>