<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="f36037" name="Genesee" 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="q44080SEE4" name="Akron" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEG3" name="Albion" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEF1" name="Alexander" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEF2" name="Attica" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEG4" name="Batavia North" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEG1" name="Batavia South" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44078SWA3" name="Brockport" parent="q44078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NE" name="Buffalo" parent="q43080" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04120103" name="Buffalo-Eighteenmile" parent="h041201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEH4" name="Byron" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078NW" name="Canandaigua" parent="q43078" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44078SWA4" name="Churchville" parent="q44078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEE1" name="Corfu" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEE2" name="Cowlesville" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEG2" name="Dale" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEH3" name="Holley" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1772" name="Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEF3" name="Knowlesville" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078NWA1" name="Le Roy" parent="q43078NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078NWA2" name="Leicester" parent="q43078NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SE" name="Lockport" parent="q44080" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04130003" name="Lower Genesee" parent="h041300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEE3" name="Medina" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04120104" name="Niagara" parent="h041201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h04130001" name="Oak Orchard-Twelvemile" parent="h041300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEF4" name="Oakfield" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44078SW" name="Rochester" parent="q44078" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEH1" name="Stafford" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1056" name="Tonawanda Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEH2" name="Wyoming" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>