<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="q39090NW" name="Carlyle Lake" parent="q39090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q39090" name="Belleville" 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="q39090NWA3" name="Collinsville" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWA2" name="Edwardsville" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWH3" name="Fairman" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWC2" name="Grantfork" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWE1" name="Greenville" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWG1" name="Hagarstown" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWC3" name="Highland" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWF3" name="Keyesport" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWB4" name="Lebanon" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWB2" name="Marine" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWF1" name="Mulberry Grove" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWC1" name="New Douglas" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWA4" name="O'Fallon" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWH2" name="Patoka" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWF2" name="Pleasant Mound" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWD2" name="Pocahontas" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWA1" name="Prairietown" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWB3" name="Saint Jacob" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWD3" name="Saint Rose" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWD1" name="Sorento South" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWE3" name="Stolletown" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWC4" name="Trenton" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWH1" name="Vandalia" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWG2" name="Wildcat Lake" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWB1" name="Worden" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f17005" name="Bond" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17027" name="Clinton" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17051" name="Fayette" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17117" name="Macoupin" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17119" name="Madison" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17121" name="Marion" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17135" name="Montgomery" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17163" name="Saint Clair" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0714" name="Upper Mississippi-Kaskaskia-Meramec" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0711" name="Upper Mississippi-Salt" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f17189" name="Washington" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>