<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="f53069" name="Wahkiakum" 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="q47124SW" name="Astoria" parent="q47124" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWE1" name="Blaney Creek" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWG1" name="Boistfort Peak" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWE3" name="Cathlamet" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWG2" name="Elochoman Lake" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWF1" name="Elochoman Pass" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWD2" name="Grays River" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1779" name="Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge for the Columbian Whitetail Deer" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="h17080006" name="Lower Columbia" parent="h170800" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17080003" name="Lower Columbia-Clatskanie" parent="h170800" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWF3" name="Nassa Point" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWG3" name="Oak Point" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWC2" name="Rosburg" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWE2" name="Skamokawa" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWF2" name="Skamokawa Pass" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWD1" name="Sweigiler Creek" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h17100103" name="Upper Chehalis" parent="h171001" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124SWC1" name="Upper Naselle River" parent="q47124SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h17100106" name="Willapa Bay" parent="h171001" scope="hydrologic unit"/></rt></descriptor>