<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="q43092NE" name="Dubuque North" parent="q43092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q43092" name="Dubuque" 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" code="fLD10" name="North America" parent="fLD" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD" name="Land" parent="root" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="root" name="Earth" scope="Common geographic areas focused on the US"/></bt><nt><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEH4" name="Apple River" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEB3" name="Balltown" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEA2" name="Beetown" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEF3" name="Belmont" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEA1" name="Bloomington" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEG3" name="Calamine" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEA3" name="Cassville" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEE4" name="Cuba City" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEH3" name="Darlington" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NED3" name="Dickeyville" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEG1" name="Dodgeville" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEC4" name="Dubuque North" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NED2" name="Ellenboro" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEC1" name="Fennimore" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEA4" name="Holy Cross" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEB2" name="Hurricane" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEH1" name="Jonesdale" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NED4" name="Kieler" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEC2" name="Lancaster" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEF1" name="Linden" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEF2" name="Mifflin" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEG2" name="Mineral Point" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEE1" name="Montfort" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEB1" name="Mount Hope" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEF4" name="New Diggings" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEE3" name="Platteville" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEC3" name="Potosi" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEE2" name="Rewey" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEB4" name="Sherrill" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEG4" name="Shullsburg" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NED1" name="Stitzer" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEH2" name="Waldwick" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f19043" name="Clayton" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19061" name="Dubuque" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55043" name="Grant" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55049" name="Iowa" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17085" name="Jo Daviess" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55065" name="Lafayette" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0709" name="Rock" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0706" name="Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0707" name="Wisconsin" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>