<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="q38080NW" name="Buena Vista" parent="q38080" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q38080" name="Roanoke" 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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thcode="1" code="q38080NWB2" name="Clifton Forge" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWD2" name="Collierstown" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWF2" name="Cornwall" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWA2" name="Covington" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWB3" name="Eagle Rock" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWA1" name="Falling Spring" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWG3" name="Forks of Buffalo" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWE3" name="Glasgow" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWE1" name="Goshen" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWB1" name="Healing Springs" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWE2" name="Lexington" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWC2" name="Longdale Furnace" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWH2" name="Massies Mill" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWD1" name="Millboro" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWG2" name="Montebello" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWD3" name="Natural Bridge" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWC1" name="Nimrod Hall" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWA4" name="Oriskany" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWH3" name="Piney River" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWB4" name="Salisbury" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWE4" name="Snowden" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWA3" name="Strom" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWC3" name="Sugarloaf Mountain" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWG4" name="Tobacco Row Mountain" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080NWG1" name="Vesuvius" parent="q38080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f51005" name="Alleghany" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51009" name="Amherst" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51015" name="Augusta" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51017" name="Bath" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51019" name="Bedford" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51023" name="Botetourt" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51530" name="Buena Vista" parent="fUS51" scope="City"/><term thcode="1" code="h0301" name="Chowan-Roanoke" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f51580" name="Covington" parent="fUS51" scope="City"/><term thcode="1" code="f51045" name="Craig" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54025" name="Greenbrier" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0505" name="Kanawha" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f51678" name="Lexington" parent="fUS51" scope="City"/><term thcode="1" code="h0208" name="Lower Chesapeake" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f51125" name="Nelson" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0207" name="Potomac" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f51163" name="Rockbridge" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>