<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="f35035" name="Otero" parent="fUS35" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS35" name="New Mexico" 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="q33106SWC4" name="Alamo Mountain" parent="q33106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SWD3" name="Alamo Mountain NE" parent="q33106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NW" name="Alamogordo" parent="q33106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWA1" name="Alamogordo North" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWA2" name="Alamogordo South" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SEA2" name="Algerita Canyon" parent="q33106SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106SWC1" name="Angus" parent="q34106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106SWC3" name="Apache Summit" parent="q34106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEH3" name="Desert NE" parent="q33108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEH4" name="Desert SE" parent="q33108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEG4" name="Desert SW" parent="q33108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106SWB4" name="Domingo Peak" parent="q34106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWC4" name="El Paso Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SWC1" name="El Paso Draw" parent="q33106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SEB4" name="El Paso Gap" parent="q33106SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEG1" name="Elephant Mountain" parent="q33108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWF1" name="Elk" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SWH2" name="Gowdy Ranch" parent="q33106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1479" name="Guadalupe Mountains National Park" parent="p18" scope="National Park"/><term thcode="1" code="p2863" name="Guadalupe Mountains Wilderness" parent="p22" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SWG2" name="Hackberry Hill" parent="q33106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWD1" name="Harvey Ranch" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108NEF2" name="Heart of the Sands" parent="q33108NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108NEF1" name="Heart of the Sands NE" parent="q33108NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWB1" name="High Rolls" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108NEH2" name="Holloman" parent="q33108NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 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name="Lumley Lake NE" parent="q34108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SWA2" name="Mack Tanks" parent="q33106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108NEH1" name="Malone Draw" parent="q33108NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWE1" name="Mayhill" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SWE4" name="Mcveigh Hills" parent="q33106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106SWB3" name="Mescalero" parent="q34106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p959" name="Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q34108SEF1" name="Mound Springs" parent="q34108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SWA4" name="Mountain Tank" parent="q33106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEF4" name="Newman" 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scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h13060008" name="Rio Hondo" parent="h130600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h13060010" name="Rio Penasco" parent="h130600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWF2" name="Robertson Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWC3" name="Rogers Ruins" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106SW" name="Ruidoso" parent="q34106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106SWC2" name="Ruidoso" parent="q34106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106SWD2" name="Ruidoso Downs" parent="q34106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106SWA4" name="Sabinata Flat" parent="q34106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWD2" name="Sacramento" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWB2" 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108NEH4" name="Tres Hermanos SE" parent="q33108NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108NEG4" name="Tres Hermanos SW" parent="q33108NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34108SE" name="Tularosa" parent="q34108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34108SEH4" name="Tularosa" parent="q34108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34108SEH3" name="Tularosa NE" parent="q34108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34108SEG4" name="Tularosa Peak" parent="q34108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h13050003" name="Tularosa Valley" parent="h130500" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106SWE4" name="Turkey Peak" parent="q34106SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h13060011" name="Upper Pecos-Black" parent="h130600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term 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