<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="q40076SW" name="Dover" parent="q40076" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q40076" name="Wilmington" 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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scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWA3" name="Church Hill" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWC2" name="Clayton" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWH2" name="Dividing Creek" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWD3" name="Dover" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWA1" name="Earleville" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWG3" name="Fortescue" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWE4" name="Frederica" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWA2" name="Galena" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWB4" name="Goldsboro" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWC3" name="Kenton" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWE3" name="Little Creek" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWC4" name="Marydel" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWC1" name="Middletown" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWB2" name="Millington" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWH1" name="Millville" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWH3" name="Port Norris" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWA4" name="Price" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWF1" name="Shiloh" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWD2" name="Smyrna" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWB3" name="Sudlersville" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWD1" name="Taylors Bridge" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SWD4" name="Wyoming" parent="q40076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f24011" name="Caroline" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f24015" name="Cecil" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34011" name="Cumberland" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0204" name="Delaware" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f10001" name="Kent" parent="fUS10" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f24029" name="Kent" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f10003" name="New Castle" parent="fUS10" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f24035" name="Queen Anne's" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34033" name="Salem" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0206" name="Upper Chesapeake" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>