<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="q38090NW" name="Carbondale" parent="q38090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q38090" name="Paducah" 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="q38090NWH3" name="Crab Orchard Lake" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWC3" name="Crosstown" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWG2" name="Desoto" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWG1" name="Elkville" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWB4" name="Friedheim" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWE3" name="Gorham" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWH2" name="Herrin" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWA1" name="Kaskaskia" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWH4" name="Lick Creek" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWA2" name="Lithium" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWG4" name="Makanda" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWF2" name="Murphysboro" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWD4" name="Neelys Landing" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWC4" name="Oak Ridge" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWE2" name="Oraville" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWB3" name="Perryville East" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWA3" name="Perryville West" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWF3" name="Pomona" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWD2" name="Raddle" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWC2" name="Rockwood" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWA4" name="Sedgewickville" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWF1" name="Vergennes" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWC1" name="Welge" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWD1" name="Willisville" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090NWE4" name="Wolf Lake" parent="q38090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f29017" name="Bollinger" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29031" name="Cape Girardeau" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17055" name="Franklin" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17077" name="Jackson" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17087" name="Johnson" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0514" name="Lower Ohio" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f17145" name="Perry" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29157" name="Perry" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17157" name="Randolph" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29186" name="Sainte Genevieve" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17181" name="Union" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0714" name="Upper Mississippi-Kaskaskia-Meramec" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f17199" name="Williamson" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>