<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="q43094NW" name="Iowa Falls" parent="q43094" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q43094" name="Waterloo" 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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code="q43094NWA1" name="Corwith" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWF3" name="Coulter" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWH1" name="Dougherty" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWE3" name="Dows East" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWD3" name="Dows West" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWA3" name="Eagle Grove" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWA4" name="Eagle Grove SW" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWD1" name="Goodell" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWG2" name="Hampton North" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWG3" name="Hampton South" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWH2" name="Hansell" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWB3" name="Holmes" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWG4" name="Iowa Falls East" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWF4" name="Iowa Falls West" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWB1" name="Kanawha" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWB2" name="Kanawha SE" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWF2" name="Latimer" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWC1" name="Olaf" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWE4" name="Popejoy" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWA2" name="Renwick" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWG1" name="Sheffield" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWD4" name="Sheldon Creek" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWF1" name="Swaledale" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWE1" name="Thornton" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094NWB4" name="Woolstock" parent="q43094NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f19023" name="Butler" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19033" name="Cerro Gordo" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0710" name="Des Moines" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19067" name="Floyd" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19069" name="Franklin" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19075" name="Grundy" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19079" name="Hamilton" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19081" name="Hancock" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19083" name="Hardin" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19091" name="Humboldt" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19109" name="Kossuth" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0708" name="Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f19187" name="Webster" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19197" name="Wright" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>