<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="q38090SW" name="Cape Girardeau" 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="q38090SWD2" name="Cape Girardeau" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWD1" name="Cape Girardeau NE" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWC3" name="Chaffee" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWH2" name="Cypress" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWA3" name="Dongola" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWG2" name="Dongola" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWC2" name="Gordonville" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWC1" name="Jackson" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWF1" name="Jonesboro" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWA2" name="Marble Hill" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWE2" name="Mcclure" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWF2" name="Mill Creek" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWB1" name="Millersville" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWD4" name="Morley" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWH1" name="Mount Pleasant" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWH3" name="Olmsted" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWC4" name="Oran" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWG3" name="Pulaski" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWA1" name="Scopus" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWD3" name="Scott City" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWF3" name="Tamms" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWE3" name="Thebes" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWE4" name="Thebes SW" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWE1" name="Ware" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090SWB3" name="Whitewater" parent="q38090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f17003" name="Alexander" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f21007" name="Ballard" parent="fUS21" scope="county"/><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="f17087" name="Johnson" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0802" name="Lower Mississippi - St. Francis" parent="h08" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0801" name="Lower Mississippi-Hatchie" parent="h08" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0514" name="Lower Ohio" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f29133" name="Mississippi" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17153" name="Pulaski" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29201" name="Scott" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29207" name="Stoddard" 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"/></rt></descriptor>