<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="q38076NN" name="Chincoteague" parent="q38076" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q38076" name="Eastville" 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="q38076NNC3" name="Accomac" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NND2" name="Bloxom" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNB2" name="Chesconessex" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNF1" name="Chincoteague East" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNF2" name="Chincoteague East Oe S" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNE1" name="Chincoteague West" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNB1" name="Crisfield" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNB4" name="Exmore" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNA1" name="Great Fox Island" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NND1" name="Hallwood" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNA4" name="Jamesville" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NND3" name="Metompkin Inlet" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNA3" name="Nandua Creek" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNC2" name="Parksley" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNB3" name="Pungoteague" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNC1" name="Saxis" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNA2" name="Tangier Island" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNC4" name="Wachapreague" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NND4" name="Wachapreague Oe E" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076NNE2" name="Wallops Island" parent="q38076NN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f51001" name="Accomack" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0208" name="Lower Chesapeake" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f51131" name="Northampton" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f24039" name="Somerset" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0206" name="Upper Chesapeake" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f24047" name="Worcester" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>