<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="q37092NW" name="West Plains" parent="q37092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q37092" name="Poplar Bluff" 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="q37092NWH4" name="Gatewood" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWF2" name="Greer" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWH2" name="Handy" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWC4" name="Koshkonong" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWB4" name="Lanton" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWF1" name="Low Wassie" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWF3" name="Many Springs" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWD1" name="Montier" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWA4" name="Moody" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWC1" name="Mountain View" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWF4" name="Myrtle" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWC2" name="Peace Valley" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWE2" name="Piedmont Hollow" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWA2" name="Pomona" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWG3" name="Riverton" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWD3" name="Rover" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWA3" name="South Fork" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWD4" name="Thayer" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37092NWD2" name="Thomasville" parent="q37092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1101" name="Upper White" parent="h11" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>