<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="q41092NW" name="Burlington" parent="q41092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q41092" name="Burlington" 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="q41092NWG3" name="Dallas City" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWF2" name="Danville" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWD3" name="Donnellson" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWA1" name="Fairfield South" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWC3" name="Farmington" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWF3" name="Fort Madison" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWC2" name="Hillsboro" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWA3" name="Keosauqua" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWH1" name="Kingston" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWC1" name="Lockridge East" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWB1" name="Lockridge West" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWH3" name="Lomax" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWE2" name="Lowell" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWD1" name="Mount Pleasant" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWA4" name="Mount Sterling" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWA2" name="Mount Zion" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWE4" name="Nauvoo" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWE1" name="New London" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWF4" name="Niota" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWF1" name="Pleasant Grove" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWD2" name="Salem" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWG1" name="Sperry" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWB2" name="Stockport" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWG2" name="West Burlington" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41092NWE3" name="West Point" parent="q41092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f29045" name="Clark" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0710" name="Des Moines" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19057" name="Des Moines" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17067" name="Hancock" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17071" name="Henderson" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19087" name="Henry" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19101" name="Jefferson" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19111" name="Lee" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0713" name="Lower Illinois" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f29199" name="Scotland" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0708" name="Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0711" name="Upper Mississippi-Salt" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19177" name="Van Buren" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>