<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="h04120104" name="Niagara" parent="h041201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h041201" name="Eastern Lake Erie" parent="h0412" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0412" name="Eastern Lake Erie-Lake Erie" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h04" name="Great Lakes" 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="q44080SEE4" name="Akron" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEF1" name="Alexander" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEF2" name="Attica" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEG4" name="Batavia North" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEG1" name="Batavia South" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEF4" name="Bliss" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEB1" name="Buffalo NE" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEA1" name="Buffalo NW" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NWH1" name="Buffalo NW Oe W" parent="q43080NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEB3" name="Cambria" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NED1" name="Clarence" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEC4" name="Clarence Center" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEE1" name="Corfu" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEE2" name="Cowlesville" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEG2" name="Dale" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36029" name="Erie" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SWH2" name="Fort Niagara" parent="q44080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SED3" name="Gasport" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36037" name="Genesee" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEF3" name="Johnsonburg" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEC1" name="Lancaster" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SWH3" name="Lewiston" parent="q44080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEC3" name="Lockport" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEE3" name="Medina" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36063" name="Niagara" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SWH4" name="Niagara Falls" parent="q44080SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEF4" name="Oakfield" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEA3" name="Ransomville" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEB4" name="Tonawanda East" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1056" name="Tonawanda Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SEA4" name="Tonawanda West" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1063" name="Tuscarora Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEG3" name="Warsaw" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44080SED4" name="Wolcottsville" parent="q44080SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36121" name="Wyoming" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>