<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="q39092NE" name="Saint Louis" parent="q39092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q39092" name="St Louis" 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="q39092NEE3" name="Creve Coeur" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEB3" name="Defiance" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEF1" name="Elsah" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEC4" name="Eureka" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEF2" name="Florissant" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEA2" name="Foristell" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEH4" name="French Village" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEE1" name="Grafton" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEG3" name="Granite City" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NED2" name="Kampville" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEE4" name="Kirkwood" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEB4" name="Labadie" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NED4" name="Manchester" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEB1" name="Maryknoll" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEH3" name="Monks Mound" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEA3" name="New Melle" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEC2" name="O'Fallon" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEE2" name="Saint Charles" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEA1" name="Troy" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEA4" name="Washington East" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEF4" name="Webster Groves" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEC3" name="Weldon Spring" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEB2" name="Wentzville" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEC1" name="Winfield" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39092NEH2" name="Wood River" parent="q39092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f17013" name="Calhoun" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29071" name="Franklin" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29099" name="Jefferson" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17083" name="Jersey" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" 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scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f29219" name="Warren" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>