<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="q43094SE" name="Marshalltown" 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="q43094SEF2" name="Eagle Center" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEF4" name="Elberon" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEG3" name="Garrison" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEC4" name="Garwin" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEG1" name="Gilbertville" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEC3" name="Gladbrook" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SED3" name="Gladbrook NE" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SED4" name="Gladbrook SE" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEB2" name="Grundy Center" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEB1" name="Holland" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEE1" name="Hudson" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEA2" name="Ivester" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEH1" name="Jesup" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEG4" name="Keystone North" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEG2" name="La Porte City" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEB4" name="Le Grand" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEC2" name="Lincoln" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEA4" name="Marshalltown" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SED2" name="Reinbeck" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEE3" name="Traer" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEH4" name="Van Horne" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEH3" name="Vinton" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEF1" name="Waterloo South" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SEA1" name="Wellsburg" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43094SED1" name="Zaneta" parent="q43094SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f19011" name="Benton" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19013" name="Black Hawk" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19019" name="Buchanan" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19075" name="Grundy" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19127" name="Marshall" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19171" name="Tama" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0708" name="Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>