<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="h01100001" name="Quinebaug" parent="h011000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h011000" name="Connecticut Coastal" parent="h0110" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0110" name="Connecticut Coastal" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h01" name="New England" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><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="q42072NWC1" name="Chepachet" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072NWC2" name="Clayville" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072NWC3" name="Coventry Center" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072NWA2" name="Danielson" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEH3" name="East Brookfield" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072NWB2" name="East Killingly" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NEH1" name="Eastford" parent="q42074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f25013" name="Hampden" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NEH2" name="Hampton" parent="q42074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072NWA4" name="Jewett City" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f44003" name="Kent" parent="fUS44" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWA3" name="Leicester" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f09011" name="New London" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NEH4" name="Norwich" parent="q42074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072SWA1" name="Old Mystic" parent="q42072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072NWB3" name="Oneco" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWB4" name="Oxford" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWA2" name="Paxton" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072NWA3" name="Plainfield" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f44007" name="Providence" parent="fUS44" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072NWA1" name="Putnam" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NEH3" name="Scotland" parent="q42074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEH4" name="Southbridge" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072NWB1" name="Thompson" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f09013" name="Tolland" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42072NWB4" name="Voluntown" parent="q42072NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEG4" name="Wales" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEG3" name="Warren" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f44009" name="Washington" parent="fUS44" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWA4" name="Webster" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f09015" name="Windham" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f25027" name="Worcester" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWB3" name="Worcester South" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>