<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="q37084NE" name="Bristol" parent="q37084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q37084" name="Johnson City" 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="q37084NEC4" name="Church Hill" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEC3" name="Clinchport" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEE1" name="Coeburn" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEB3" name="Duffield" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEE2" name="Dungannon" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEC2" name="East Stone Gap" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NED2" name="Fort Blackmore" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NED3" name="Gate City" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEG2" name="Hansonville" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEE3" name="Hilton" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEH4" name="Holston Valley" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEE4" name="Indian Springs" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEA2" name="Keokee" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NED4" name="Kingsport" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEH1" name="Lebanon" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEA4" name="Looneys Gap" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEF3" name="Mendota" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEF2" name="Moll Creek" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEC1" name="Norton" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEB4" name="Plum Grove" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEF1" name="Saint Paul" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEA3" name="Stickleyville" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEG3" name="Wallace" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NED1" name="Wise" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37084NEH3" name="Wyndale" parent="q37084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="h0507" name="Big Sandy-Guyandotte" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f51520" name="Bristol" parent="fUS51" scope="City"/><term thcode="1" code="f47019" name="Carter" parent="fUS47" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0513" name="Cumberland" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f51051" name="Dickenson" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f47067" name="Hancock" parent="fUS47" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f21095" name="Harlan" parent="fUS21" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f47073" name="Hawkins" parent="fUS47" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0510" name="Kentucky-Licking" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f51105" name="Lee" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f21133" name="Letcher" parent="fUS21" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51720" name="Norton" parent="fUS51" scope="City"/><term thcode="1" code="f51167" name="Russell" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51169" name="Scott" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><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="f51191" name="Washington" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51195" name="Wise" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>