<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="q43092SW" name="Anamosa" 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 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scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWD3" name="Central City" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWA2" name="Cheney" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWD2" name="Coggon" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWH1" name="Dyersville East" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWG1" name="Dyersville West" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWF1" name="Earlville" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWG2" name="Hopkinton East" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWF2" name="Hopkinton West" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWA1" name="Independence" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWC3" name="Lafayette" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWE1" name="Manchester" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWD4" name="Marion" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWD1" name="Masonville" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWG3" name="Monticello" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWG4" name="Morley" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWE3" name="Prairieburg" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWB1" name="Quasqueton" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWE2" name="Ryan" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWH3" name="Scotch Grove" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWB4" name="Shellsburg" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWE4" name="Springville" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWC2" name="Troy Mills" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWB2" name="Walker" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWC1" name="Winthrop" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWH4" name="Wyoming West" parent="q43092SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f19011" name="Benton" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19019" name="Buchanan" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19055" name="Delaware" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19061" name="Dubuque" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19105" name="Jones" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19113" name="Linn" parent="fUS19" 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"/></rt></descriptor>