<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="h07130002" name="Vermilion" parent="h071300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h071300" name="Lower Illinois" parent="h0713" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0713" name="Lower Illinois" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h07" name="Upper Mississippi" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic 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1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41090NEE3" name="Forrest South" parent="q41090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17075" name="Iroquois" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q41090NEH2" name="La Hogue" parent="q41090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17099" name="La Salle" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWH2" name="La Salle" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SEA3" name="Leonore" parent="q42090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41090NEB3" name="Lexington" parent="q41090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17105" name="Livingston" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SEA4" name="Long Point" parent="q42090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17123" name="Marshall" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17113" name="McLean" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SWG3" name="Mcnabb" parent="q42090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41090NEF4" name="Melvin West" parent="q41090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41090NWH1" name="Minonk" parent="q41090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41090NED1" name="Northeast Pontiac" parent="q41090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41090NEC1" name="Northwest Pontiac" parent="q41090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SED4" name="Odell" parent="q42090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41090NEG2" name="Piper City" parent="q41090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41090NEH1" name="Piper City NE" parent="q41090NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SEC3" name="Ransom" parent="q42090SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 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code="f17203" name="Woodford" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>