<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="q42092NW" name="Iowa City" parent="q42092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q42092" name="Davenport" 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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thcode="1" code="q42092NWA3" name="Conroy" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWD2" name="Ely" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWB1" name="Fairfax" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWD4" name="Hills" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWA4" name="Holbrook" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWE3" name="Iowa City East" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWD3" name="Iowa City West" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWH3" name="Lime City" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWF1" name="Mechanicsville" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWA2" name="Middle Amana" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWE1" name="Mount Vernon" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWA1" name="Newhall" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWB3" name="Oxford" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWG3" name="Rochester" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWE2" name="Solon" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWG1" name="Stanwood" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWC2" name="Swisher" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWC3" name="Tiffin" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWH2" name="Tipton East" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWG2" name="Tipton West" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWF3" name="West Branch" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWF4" name="West Liberty" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWE4" name="West Liberty SW" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWC4" name="Williamstown" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NWH4" name="Wilton" parent="q42092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f19011" name="Benton" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19031" name="Cedar" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19095" name="Iowa" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19103" name="Johnson" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19105" name="Jones" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19107" name="Keokuk" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19113" name="Linn" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19139" name="Muscatine" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0708" name="Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19183" name="Washington" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>