<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="q42090NE" name="Aurora" parent="q42090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q42090" name="Aurora" 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 thcode="1" code="fLD10" name="North America" parent="fLD" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD" name="Land" parent="root" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="root" name="Earth" scope="Common geographic areas focused on the US"/></bt><nt><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEF2" name="Aurora North" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEF3" name="Aurora South" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NED2" name="Big Rock" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEA1" name="Creston" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEB1" name="De Kalb" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEA4" name="Earlville" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEE1" name="Elburn" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEF1" name="Geneva" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEC2" name="Hinckley" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEH4" name="Joliet" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEA2" name="Lee" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEB4" name="Leland" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEH1" name="Lombard" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NED1" name="Maple Park" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEG2" name="Naperville" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NED4" name="Newark" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEG3" name="Normantown" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEA3" name="Paw Paw" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEG4" name="Plainfield" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NED3" name="Plano" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEE4" name="Plattville" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEH3" name="Romeoville" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEB3" name="Shabbona Grove" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEC4" name="Sheridan" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEC3" name="Somonauk" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEE2" name="Sugar Grove" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEC1" name="Sycamore" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEB2" name="Waterman" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEG1" name="West Chicago" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEH2" name="Wheaton" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEE3" name="Yorkville" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NEF4" name="Yorkville SE" parent="q42090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f17031" name="Cook" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17037" name="DeKalb" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17043" name="DuPage" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17089" name="Kane" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17093" name="Kendall" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" 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