<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="h02030101" name="Lower Hudson" parent="h020301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h020301" name="Lower Hudson" parent="h0203" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0203" name="Lower Hudson-Long Island" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h02" name="Mid Atlantic" 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="f34003" name="Bergen" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWE2" name="Bethel" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWD1" name="Brewster" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36005" name="Bronx" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWA3" name="Brooklyn" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWA2" name="Central Park" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWC2" name="Croton Falls" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWE1" name="Danbury" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36027" name="Dutchess" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f09001" name="Fairfield" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWA3" name="Haverstraw" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWB4" name="Hopewell Junction" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f34017" name="Hudson" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEH3" name="Jersey City" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWC1" name="Lake Carmel" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWB2" name="Mohegan Lake" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42076SEG2" name="Monroe" parent="q42076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWC3" name="Mount Kisco" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWB1" name="Mount Vernon" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWE4" name="New Milford" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36061" name="New York" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWA4" name="Nyack" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36071" name="Orange" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWB1" name="Oscawana Lake" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWB3" name="Ossining" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWD4" name="Pawling" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWD2" name="Peach Lake" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWA2" name="Peekskill" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42076SEH2" name="Popolopen Lake" parent="q42076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWC4" name="Poughquag" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWD3" name="Pound Ridge" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36079" name="Putnam" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36081" name="Queens" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36087" name="Rockland" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42076SEG3" name="Sloatsburg" parent="q42076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42076SEH3" name="Thiells" parent="q42076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEH2" name="Weehawken" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWA1" name="West Point" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36119" name="Westchester" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074SWB4" name="White Plains" parent="q42074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWA1" name="Yonkers" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>