<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="q38082NW" name="Beckley" parent="q38082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q38082" name="Bluefield" 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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1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWE3" name="Mcgraws" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWE4" name="Mullens" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWG1" name="Oak Hill" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWC3" name="Oceana" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWG4" name="Odd" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWF1" name="Pax" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWD2" name="Pilot Knob" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWD4" name="Pineville" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWH2" name="Prince" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWF4" name="Rhodell" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWH3" name="Shady Spring" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWH1" name="Thurmond" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWA4" name="Wharncliffe" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWC1" name="Wharton" parent="q38082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082NWD1" name="Whitesville" parent="q38082NW" 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="f54005" name="Boone" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51027" name="Buchanan" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54019" name="Fayette" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0505" name="Kanawha" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic 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