<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="f09005" name="Litchfield" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS09" name="Connecticut" 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="q42074NWD2" name="Amenia" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWF4" name="Ashley Falls" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWE4" name="Bash Bish Falls" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SW" name="Bridgeport" parent="q42074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NEA3" name="Bristol" parent="q42074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p278" name="Colebrook River Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NEA2" name="Collinsville" parent="q42074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWF2" name="Cornwall" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWE1" name="Danbury" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWD3" name="Dover Plains" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWE2" name="Ellsworth" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01080207" name="Farmington" parent="h010802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NE" name="Hartford" parent="q42074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01100005" name="Housatonic" parent="h011000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWE3" name="Kent" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWG3" name="Litchfield" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h02020006" name="Middle Hudson" parent="h020200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWD1" name="Millerton" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NEA1" name="New Hartford" parent="q42074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWE4" name="New Milford" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWF3" name="New Preston" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWF1" name="Newtown" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWG1" name="Norfolk" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SW" name="Pittsfield" parent="q43074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWF4" name="Roxbury" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWE1" name="Sharon" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWF1" name="South Canaan" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWG4" name="South Sandisfield" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWH3" name="Thomaston" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWH4" name="Tolland Center" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWH2" name="Torrington" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NW" name="Waterbury" parent="q42074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWH4" name="Waterbury" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWG2" name="West Torrington" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWH1" name="Winsted" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWG4" name="Woodbury" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>