<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="f25013" name="Hampden" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS25" name="Massachusetts" 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="q43074SWH2" name="Becket" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEA3" name="Blandford" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEA2" name="Chester" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01080204" name="Chicopee" parent="h010802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p278" name="Colebrook River Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEC2" name="Easthampton" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01080207" name="Farmington" parent="h010802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEE4" name="Hampden" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NE" name="Hartford" parent="q42074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SE" name="Holyoke" parent="q43074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01080205" name="Lower Connecticut" parent="h010802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEE3" name="Ludlow" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01080201" name="Middle Connecticut" parent="h010802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEF4" name="Monson" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SED2" name="Mount Holyoke" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEC3" name="Mount Tom" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWH3" name="Otis" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEF3" name="Palmer" parent="q43074SE" 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="h01100001" name="Quinebaug" parent="h011000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h01100002" name="Shetucket" parent="h011000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEB4" name="Southwick" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SED3" name="Springfield North" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SED4" name="Springfield South" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NEB1" name="Tariffville" parent="q42074NE" 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="q43074SEG4" name="Wales" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEG3" name="Warren" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEA4" name="West Granville" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEC4" name="West Springfield" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01080206" name="Westfield" parent="h010802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p215" name="Westover Air Force Base" parent="p25" scope="Air Force"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEB3" name="Woronoco" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>