<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="q38082SW" name="Bluefield" 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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code="q38082SWB2" name="Bradshaw" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWF2" name="Bramwell" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWF3" name="Cove Creek" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWF1" name="Crumpler" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWC1" name="Davy" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWF4" name="Garden Mountain" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWD2" name="Gary" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWA4" name="Honaker" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWE4" name="Hutchinson Rock" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWB1" name="Iaeger" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWB3" name="Jewell Ridge" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWA3" name="Keen Mountain" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWE1" name="Keystone" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWG1" name="Matoaka" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWA1" name="Panther" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWA2" name="Patterson" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWC4" name="Pounding Mill" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWH2" name="Princeton" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWB4" name="Richlands" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWH3" name="Rocky Gap" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWD3" name="Tazewell North" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWD4" name="Tazewell South" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWE3" name="Tiptop" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWC2" name="War" parent="q38082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38082SWD1" name="Welch" parent="q38082SW" 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="f51021" name="Bland" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51027" name="Buchanan" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51071" name="Giles" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0505" name="Kanawha" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f54047" name="McDowell" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54055" name="Mercer" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51167" name="Russell" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51173" name="Smyth" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51185" name="Tazewell" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0601" name="Upper Tennessee" parent="h06" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f54109" name="Wyoming" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f51197" name="Wythe" parent="fUS51" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>