<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="f50009" name="Essex" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS50" name="Vermont" 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="q45072NWC1" name="Averill Lake" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072SWC4" name="Averill Lake Oe N" parent="q46072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWC2" name="Bloomfield" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWA4" name="Burke Mountain" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072SWA1" name="Concord" parent="q45072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWB4" name="Gallup Mills" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072SWC1" name="Gilman" parent="q45072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NW" name="Groveton" parent="q45072" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWD4" name="Groveton" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWA2" name="Island Pond" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072SWD1" name="Lancaster" parent="q45072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072SWB2" name="Littleton" parent="q45072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWE1" name="Lovering Mountain" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWC3" name="Maidstone Lake" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072SWB1" name="Miles Pond" parent="q45072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWD1" name="Monadnock Mountain" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072SWD4" name="Monadnock Mountain Oe N" parent="q46072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWA1" name="Morgan Center" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072SWA4" name="Morgan Center Oe N" parent="q46072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072SW" name="Mount Washington" parent="q45072" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWB1" name="Norton Pond" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072SWB4" name="Norton Pond Oe N" parent="q46072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01080102" name="Passumpsic" parent="h010801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072SWE4" name="Pittsburg" parent="q46072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWB3" name="Seneca Mountain" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072SW" name="Sherbrooke" parent="q46072" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1979" name="Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWB2" name="Spectacle Pond" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01110000" name="St. Francois" parent="h011100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWC4" name="Stone Mountain" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWD3" name="Stratford" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWD2" name="Tinkerville" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01080101" name="Upper Connecticut" parent="h010801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NWA3" name="West Burke" parent="q45072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>