<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="h17010306" name="Hangman" parent="h170103" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h170103" name="Spokane" parent="h1701" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1701" name="Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h17" name="Pacific Northwest" 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="q48118NWD3" name="Airway Heights" parent="q48118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SEC3" name="Alder Creek Flats" parent="q48118SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f16009" name="Benewah" parent="fUS16" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SEB3" name="Benewah" parent="q48118SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SEB2" name="Chatcolet" parent="q48118SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SWD1" name="Cheney" parent="q48118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p880" name="Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SWG1" name="Fairfield" parent="q48118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118NWD4" name="Four Lakes" parent="q48118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118NWG4" name="Freeman" parent="q48118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SEB1" name="Harrison" parent="q48118SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f16055" name="Kootenai" parent="fUS16" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f16057" name="Latah" parent="fUS16" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SWG2" name="Latah" parent="q48118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118NWH4" name="Mica Peak" parent="q48118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SEA4" name="Mission Mountain" parent="q48118SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SWG3" name="Oakesdale" parent="q48118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SEA2" name="Plummer" parent="q48118SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1255" name="Saint Joe National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SEB4" name="Sanders" parent="q48118SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SWH1" name="Setters" parent="q48118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SWF1" name="Spangle East" parent="q48118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SWE1" name="Spangle West" parent="q48118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53063" name="Spokane" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118NWE3" name="Spokane NW" parent="q48118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118NWF4" name="Spokane SE" parent="q48118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118NWE4" name="Spokane SW" parent="q48118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SWF2" name="Spring Valley" parent="q48118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SWH3" name="Tekoa" parent="q48118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SWH2" name="Tekoa Mountain" parent="q48118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SEA3" name="Tensed" parent="q48118SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2022" name="Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SEC4" name="West Dennis" parent="q48118SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53075" name="Whitman" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SEA1" name="Worley" parent="q48118SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>