<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="h17" name="Pacific Northwest" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><bt><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><nt><term thcode="1" code="h1701" name="Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1708" name="Lower Columbia" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1706" name="Lower Snake" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1707" name="Middle Columbia" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1705" name="Middle Snake" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1712" name="Oregon closed basins" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1710" name="Oregon-Washington Coastal" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1711" name="Puget Sound" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1702" name="Upper Columbia" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1704" name="Upper Snake" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1709" name="Willamette" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1703" name="Yakima" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q43120" name="Adel" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42122" name="Alturas" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45112" name="Ashton" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45118" name="Baker" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45122" name="Bend" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44118" name="Boise" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42114" name="Brigham City" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term 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code="q49114" name="Cut Bank" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46114" name="Dillon" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44112" name="Driggs" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45114" name="Dubois" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46116" name="Elk City" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42125" name="Eureka" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46118" name="Grangeville" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44116" name="Hailey" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47116" name="Hamilton" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124" name="Hoquiam" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44114" name="Idaho 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parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120" name="Ritzville" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44124" name="Roseburg" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45124" name="Salem" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49118" name="Sandpoint" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48124" name="Seattle" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118" name="Spokane" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46122" name="The Dalles" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44110" name="Thermopolis" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43116" name="Twin Falls" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46124" name="Vancouver" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124" name="Victoria" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42120" name="Vya" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120" name="Walla Walla" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48116" name="Wallace" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42124" name="Weed" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42116" name="Wells" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48122" name="Wenatchee" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47122" name="Yakima" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>