<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="q42090NW" name="Dixon" 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" 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name="Dixon West" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWA1" name="Fair Haven" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWF2" name="Franklin Grove" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWE1" name="Grand Detour" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWC3" name="Hahnaman" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWD3" name="Harmon" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWC1" name="Hazelhurst" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWA4" name="Hooppole" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWF4" name="La Moille" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWH4" name="Mendota East" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWG4" name="Mendota West" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWB1" name="Milledgeville" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWA2" name="Morrison" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWC4" name="New Bedford" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWE4" name="Ohio" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWD1" name="Polo" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWA3" name="Prophetstown" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWH1" name="Rochelle" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWC2" name="Sterling" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWH2" name="Steward" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWG3" name="Sublette" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWB3" name="Tampico" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWD4" name="Walnut" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWE3" name="Walton" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NWB4" name="Yorktown" parent="q42090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f17011" name="Bureau" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17015" name="Carroll" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17073" name="Henry" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17099" name="La Salle" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17103" name="Lee" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term 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