<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="h1706" name="Lower Snake" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><bt><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 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name="Clarkston" parent="q47118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NE" name="Connell" parent="q47120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45116SW" name="Deadwood River" parent="q45116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45114SE" name="Dubois" parent="q45114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46116NW" name="Elk City" parent="q46116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46118SW" name="Enterprise" parent="q46118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46118NE" name="Grangeville" parent="q46118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47116SE" name="Hamilton" parent="q47116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47116NW" name="Headquarters" parent="q47116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS16" name="Idaho" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q47116SW" name="Kooskia" parent="q47116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46120SE" name="La Grande" parent="q46120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45114NW" name="Leadore" parent="q45114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45118NE" name="Mc Call" parent="q45118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47116NE" name="Missoula West" parent="q47116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS30" name="Montana" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q46116NE" name="Nez Perce Pass" parent="q46116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS41" name="Oregon" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SE" name="Orofino" parent="q47118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46120NE" name="Pendleton" parent="q46120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45116NW" name="Pistol Creek" parent="q45116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NE" name="Potlatch" parent="q47118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118NW" name="Pullman" parent="q47118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SW" name="Richland" parent="q47120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46118SE" name="Riggins" parent="q46118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SE" name="Ritzville" parent="q48120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SW" name="Rosalia" parent="q48118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118SE" name="Saint Maries" parent="q48118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46114SW" name="Salmon" parent="q46114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48118NW" name="Spokane" parent="q48118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44116NE" name="Sun Valley" parent="q44116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SE" name="Walla Walla" parent="q47120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48116SW" name="Wallace" parent="q48116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46118NW" name="Wallowa" parent="q46118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46116SW" name="Warren" parent="q46116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS53" name="Washington" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q45116SE" name="White Cloud Peaks" parent="q45116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46114NW" name="Wisdom" parent="q46114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>