<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="f53023" name="Garfield" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS53" name="Washington" 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="q47118NWE3" name="Almota" parent="q47118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWE1" name="Alpowa Ridge" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NWB3" name="Central Ferry" parent="q47118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SW" name="Clarkston" parent="q47118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NWG4" name="Colton" parent="q47118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWD4" name="Diamond Peak" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NWB4" name="Dodge" parent="q47118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46118NWD1" name="Eden" parent="q46118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NWC4" name="Falling Springs" parent="q47118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NWD4" name="Gould City" parent="q47118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NWF4" name="Granite Point" parent="q47118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWC2" name="Hopkins Ridge" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NWE4" name="Kirby" parent="q47118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h17060106" name="Lower Grande Ronde" parent="h170601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17060103" name="Lower Snake-Asotin" parent="h170601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17060107" name="Lower Snake-Tucannon" parent="h170601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWE2" name="Peola" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NWC3" name="Ping" parent="q47118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWE3" name="Pinkham Butte" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWD1" name="Pomeroy" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NW" name="Pullman" parent="q47118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWD2" name="Rose Springs" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWE4" name="Saddle Butte" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWG1" name="Silcott Island" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWF1" name="Stember Creek" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWD3" name="Stentz Spring" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46118NWE1" name="Troy" parent="q46118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWB1" name="Turner" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1289" name="Umatilla National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NWD3" name="Wades Bar" parent="q47118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46118NW" name="Wallowa" parent="q46118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2774" name="Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SWC1" name="Zumwalt" parent="q47118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>