<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="f36021" name="Columbia" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS36" name="New York" 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="q43074NW" name="Albany" parent="q43074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWC4" name="Ancram" 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="q43074SWE1" name="Canaan" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWA3" name="Cementon" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWD2" name="Chatham" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWC3" name="Claverack" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWB4" name="Clermont" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWD4" name="Copake" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWD1" name="East Chatham" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWE3" name="Egremont" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NWF4" name="Hancock" parent="q43074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWD3" name="Hillsdale" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01100005" name="Housatonic" parent="h011000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWB2" name="Hudson North" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWB3" name="Hudson South" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWC1" name="Kinderhook" parent="q43074SW" 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="q42074NWC1" name="Pine Plains" 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="q43074SWF1" name="Pittsfield West" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWB1" name="Ravena" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWA4" name="Saugerties" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWE2" name="State Line" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NWE4" name="Stephentown Center" parent="q43074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWC2" name="Stottville" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NW" name="Waterbury" parent="q42074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>