<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="h07140203" name="Shoal" parent="h071402" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h071402" name="Kaskaskia" parent="h0714" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0714" name="Upper Mississippi-Kaskaskia-Meramec" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h07" name="Upper Mississippi" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><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="q40090SWC2" name="Atwater" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWF3" name="Bald Knob" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWE2" name="Beaver Creek" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWE4" name="Beckemeyer" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17005" name="Bond" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWD4" name="Breese" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWD3" name="Butler" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17021" name="Christian" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17027" name="Clinton" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWE4" name="Coffeen" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWF4" name="Fillmore" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWE1" name="Greenville" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWE3" name="Hillsboro" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWF3" name="Keyesport" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWC3" name="Litchfield" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17117" name="Macoupin" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17119" name="Madison" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f17135" name="Montgomery" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWC4" name="Mount Olive" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWF1" name="Mulberry Grove" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWC1" name="New Douglas" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWF2" name="Nokomis" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWE2" name="Nokomis SW" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWG2" name="Ohlman" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090SWD1" name="Okawville" parent="q39090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWF2" name="Pleasant Mound" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWD2" name="Pocahontas" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWD2" name="Raymond" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWD1" name="Raymond NE" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWD3" name="Saint Rose" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40090SWD4" name="Sorento North" parent="q40090SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWD1" name="Sorento South" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39090NWE3" name="Stolletown" parent="q39090NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f17189" name="Washington" parent="fUS17" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>