<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="h1707" name="Middle Columbia" 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 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="h170703" name="Deschutes" parent="h1707" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h170702" name="John Day" parent="h1707" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h170701" name="Middle Columbia" parent="h1707" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q45120NE" name="Bates" parent="q45120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45122SW" name="Bend" parent="q45122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44122NE" name="Brothers" parent="q44122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44120NW" name="Burns" parent="q44120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47118SW" name="Clarkston" parent="q47118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46122SE" name="Condon" parent="q46122" 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="q44122SW" name="Crescent" parent="q44122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45120SW" name="Dayville" parent="q45120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44124SE" name="Diamond Lake" parent="q44124" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46122NE" name="Goldendale" parent="q46122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44120SW" name="Harney Lake" parent="q44120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46120SW" name="Heppner" parent="q46120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46120NW" name="Hermiston" parent="q46120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46122NW" name="Hood River" parent="q46122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45120SE" name="John Day" parent="q45120" 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="q44122NW" name="La Pine" parent="q44122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45122NW" name="Madras" parent="q45122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45120NW" name="Monument" parent="q45120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47122SW" name="Mount Adams" parent="q47122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46122SW" name="Mount Hood" parent="q46122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47122NW" name="Mount Rainier" parent="q47122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44124NE" name="Oakridge" parent="q44124" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS41" name="Oregon" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q46120NE" name="Pendleton" parent="q46120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45122SE" name="Prineville" parent="q45122" 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="q45122NE" name="Stephenson Mountain" parent="q45122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47122SE" name="Toppenish" parent="q47122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46124NE" name="Vancouver" parent="q46124" 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="q46118NW" name="Wallowa" parent="q46118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS53" name="Washington" parent="fUS" scope="state"/></rt></descriptor>