<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="q42094SE" name="Oskaloosa" parent="q42094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q42094" name="Des Moines" 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="q42094SEC3" name="Eddyville" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEF4" name="Farson" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEE3" name="Fremont" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEE1" name="Gibson" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEH2" name="Harper" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEA2" name="Harvey" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEF3" name="Hedrick" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEA4" name="Hiteman" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEG1" name="Keswick" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SED3" name="Kirkville" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEB2" name="Leighton" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEA3" name="Lovilia" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEC1" name="New Sharon" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEH3" name="Ollie" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEC2" name="Oskaloosa" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEE4" name="Ottumwa North" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEG3" name="Pekin" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEA1" name="Pella" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEB1" name="Peoria" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEE2" name="Rose Hill" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEG2" name="Sigourney" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEH1" name="South English" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SED1" name="Union Mills" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SED2" name="University Park" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42094SEF1" name="What Cheer" parent="q42094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="h0710" name="Des Moines" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19101" name="Jefferson" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19107" name="Keokuk" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19123" name="Mahaska" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19125" name="Marion" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19135" name="Monroe" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0708" name="Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19179" name="Wapello" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>