<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="q43092NW" name="Oelwein" parent="q43092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q43092" name="Dubuque" 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="q43092NWE2" name="Elkader" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWF1" name="Farmersburg" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWB2" name="Fayette" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWF3" name="Garber" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWG2" name="Garnavillo" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWF4" name="Greeley" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWD1" name="Gunder" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWH2" name="Guttenberg" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWA1" name="Hawkeye" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWA4" name="Hazleton" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWC4" name="Lamont" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWF2" name="Littleport" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWA2" name="Maynard" parent="q43092NW" 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="q43092NWA3" name="Oelwein" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWB4" name="Oelwein SE" parent="q43092NW" 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="q43092NWE1" name="Saint Olaf" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWB3" name="Stanley" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWD3" name="Strawberry Point" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWE4" name="Thorpe" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWH3" name="Turkey River" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWD2" name="Volga" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWC2" name="Wadena" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NWB1" name="West Union" parent="q43092NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f19019" name="Buchanan" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19043" name="Clayton" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55023" name="Crawford" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19055" name="Delaware" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19061" name="Dubuque" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f19065" name="Fayette" parent="fUS19" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f55043" name="Grant" parent="fUS55" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0708" name="Upper Mississippi-Iowa-Skunk-Wapsipinicon" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0706" name="Upper Mississippi-Maquoketa-Plum" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0707" name="Wisconsin" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>