<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="q42096SE" name="Creston" parent="q42096" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q42096" name="Omaha" 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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code="q42096SEB4" name="Carbon" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEC4" name="Corning North" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEF4" name="Creston East" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEE4" name="Creston West" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEB3" name="Dewey" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEH1" name="Earlham East" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEG1" name="Earlham West" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SED2" name="Fontanelle" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEC2" name="Fontanelle SW" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEA3" name="Grant" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEE2" name="Greenfield" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEH3" name="Lorimor North" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEH4" name="Lorimor South" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEG3" name="Macksburg" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEB2" name="Massena" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEA4" name="Morton Mills" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SED3" name="Nevinville" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEE3" name="Orient" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEG2" name="Pitzer" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SED4" name="Prescott" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEE1" name="Rosserdale" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEF1" name="Stuart South" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEH2" name="Winterset" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEA1" name="Wiota" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42096SEF3" name="Zion" parent="q42096SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f19001" name="Adair" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19003" name="Adams" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19029" name="Cass" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1028" name="Chariton-Grand" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19039" name="Clarke" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0710" name="Des Moines" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19121" name="Madison" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1024" name="Missouri-Nishnabotna" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19137" name="Montgomery" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19175" name="Union" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>