<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="f24023" name="Garrett" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS24" name="Maryland" 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="q40080NWF3" name="Accident" parent="q40080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NWH3" name="Avilton" parent="q40080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NWH4" name="Barton" parent="q40080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NWG4" name="Bittinger" parent="q40080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05020004" name="Cheat" parent="h050200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NE" name="Cumberland" parent="q40080" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080SWE3" name="Davis" parent="q40080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080SWF1" name="Deer Park" parent="q40080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NWE3" name="Friendsville" parent="q40080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NEA3" name="Frostburg" parent="q40080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080SWF2" name="Gorman" parent="q40080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NWG3" name="Grantsville" parent="q40080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p341" name="Jennings Randolph Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080SW" name="Kingwood" parent="q40080" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080SWG1" name="Kitzmiller" parent="q40080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NEA4" name="Lonaconing" parent="q40080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NWF4" name="Mchenry" parent="q40080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NW" name="Morgantown" parent="q40080" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080SWG2" name="Mount Storm" parent="q40080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h02070002" name="North Branch Potomac" parent="h020700" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080SWE1" name="Oakland" parent="q40080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080NWE4" name="Sang Run" parent="q40080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080SWE2" name="Table Rock" parent="q40080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40080SWH1" name="Westernport" parent="q40080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05020006" name="Youghiogheny" parent="h050200" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p474" name="Youghiogheny River Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/></rt></descriptor>