<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="q43090SE" name="Elgin" parent="q43090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q43090" name="Rockford" 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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name="Hampshire" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SED1" name="Harvard" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEE1" name="Hebron" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEE3" name="Huntley" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEB4" name="Kirkland" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEH3" name="Lake Zurich" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SED2" name="Marengo North" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SED3" name="Marengo South" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEF2" name="Mchenry" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEH4" name="Palatine" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEE4" name="Pingree Grove" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEF1" name="Richmond" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEC3" name="Riley" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEG4" name="Streamwood" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEG2" name="Wauconda" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SEE2" name="Woodstock" parent="q43090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f17007" name="Boone" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><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="f17089" name="Kane" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55059" name="Kenosha" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17097" name="Lake" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17111" name="McHenry" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17141" name="Ogle" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0709" name="Rock" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f55105" name="Rock" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0712" name="Upper Illinois" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f55127" name="Walworth" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17201" name="Winnebago" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>