<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="q40090NW" name="Springfield" parent="q40090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q40090" name="Decatur" 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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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NWD3" name="New City" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NWG2" name="Niantic" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NWD4" name="Pawnee" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NWA2" name="Pleasant Plains" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NWB1" name="Salisbury" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NWD2" name="Springfield East" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NWC2" name="Springfield West" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NWG3" name="Stonington" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090NWA1" name="Tallula" parent="q40090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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name="Macon" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17117" name="Macoupin" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17129" name="Menard" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17135" name="Montgomery" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17137" name="Morgan" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17167" name="Sangamon" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17173" name="Shelby" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>