<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="h17110007" name="Lower Skagit" parent="h171100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h171100" name="Puget Sound" parent="h1711" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1711" name="Puget Sound" 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="q49124NEF4" name="Alger" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEF2" name="Conway" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122SWA1" name="Day Lake" parent="q49122SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122SWC1" name="Finney Peak" parent="q49122SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122SWB1" name="Gee Point" parent="q49122SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122NWB4" name="Grandy Lake" parent="q49122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122NWA4" name="Hamilton" parent="q49122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEH1" name="Haystack Mountain" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEE1" name="La Conner" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122NWC4" name="Lake Shannon" parent="q49122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEH4" name="Lyman" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEG2" name="Mcmurray" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p596" name="Mount Baker Helicopter Training Area" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><term thcode="1" code="p1227" name="Mount Baker National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEF1" name="Mount Vernon" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEG4" name="Sedro-woolley North" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEG1" name="Sedro-woolley South" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53057" name="Skagit" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f53061" name="Snohomish" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124SEE2" name="Utsalady" parent="q49124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>