<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="f19061" name="Dubuque" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS19" name="Iowa" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><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><rt><term thcode="1" code="q43092SW" name="Anamosa" parent="q43092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07060005" name="Apple-Plum" parent="h070600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEB3" name="Balltown" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEB2" name="Bernard" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SWH2" name="Cascade" parent="q43092SW" 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="q43092NWG3" name="Colesburg" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NE" name="Dubuque North" parent="q43092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEC4" name="Dubuque North" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SE" name="Dubuque South" parent="q43092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEC1" name="Dubuque South" parent="q43092SE" 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="q43092SEA1" name="Epworth" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEA2" name="Fillmore" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEE1" name="Galena" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07060003" name="Grant-Little Maquoketa" parent="h070600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NEA4" name="Holy Cross" parent="q43092NE" 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="h07060006" name="Maquoketa" parent="h070600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SED1" name="Menominee" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWH4" name="New Vienna" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NW" name="Oelwein" parent="q43092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEB1" name="Peosta" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWG4" name="Petersburg" parent="q43092NW" 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="q43092NEB4" name="Sherrill" parent="q43092NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h07060004" name="Turkey" parent="h070600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWH3" name="Turkey River" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2027" name="Upper Mississippi River Wildlife And Fish Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092SEC2" name="Zwingle" parent="q43092SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>