<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="q43090SW" name="Rockford" 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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thcode="1" code="q43090SWD2" name="Freeport East" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWC2" name="Freeport West" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWE3" name="German Valley" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWA2" name="Kent" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWH4" name="Kings" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWG3" name="Kishwaukee" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWB4" name="Lanark" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWB1" name="Lena" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWA3" name="Loran" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWA4" name="Mount Carroll" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWE4" name="Mount Morris" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWC1" name="Orangeville" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWF4" name="Oregon" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWB2" name="Pearl City" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWF2" name="Pecatonica" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWE2" name="Ridott" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWH2" name="Rockford North" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWH3" name="Rockford South" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWF3" name="Seward" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWC3" name="Shannon" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWG1" name="Shirland" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWH1" name="South Beloit" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWG4" name="Stillman Valley" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWA1" name="Warren" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SWG2" name="Winnebago" parent="q43090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f17015" name="Carroll" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17085" name="Jo Daviess" 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="f17177" name="Stephenson" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0708" name="Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0706" name="Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f17201" name="Winnebago" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>