<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="h02030105" name="Raritan" 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="q41076SEF3" name="Adelphia" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SED3" name="Allentown" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p484" name="Belle Mead General Depot" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NED3" name="Bernardsville" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWH3" name="Bloomsbury" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NED4" name="Bound Brook" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEB3" name="Califon" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEE3" name="Chatham" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEC2" name="Chester" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NED1" name="Dover" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEB4" name="Flemington" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEF2" name="Freehold" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWH4" name="Frenchtown" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEC3" name="Gladstone" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEB2" name="Hackettstown" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEA3" name="High Bridge" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SED2" name="Hightstown" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEB1" name="Hopewell" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f34019" name="Hunterdon" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEE2" name="Jamesburg" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEG2" name="Marlboro" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NED2" name="Mendham" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f34021" name="Mercer" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34023" name="Middlesex" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34025" name="Monmouth" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SED1" name="Monmouth Junction" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f34027" name="Morris" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEE1" name="New Brunswick" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEB2" name="Pennington" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEF4" name="Perth Amboy" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEA4" name="Pittstown" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEE4" name="Plainfield" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEC2" name="Princeton" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEC4" name="Raritan" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEC1" name="Rocky Hill" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEE3" name="Roosevelt" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEF3" name="Roselle" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f34035" name="Somerset" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEF1" name="South Amboy" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEC1" name="Stanhope" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEA1" name="Stockton" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEB1" name="Tranquility" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f34039" name="Union" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEA2" name="Washington" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>