<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="p596" name="Mount Baker Helicopter Training Area" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="p23" name="Army DOD" parent="pDOD" scope="Type of land area"/><term thcode="1" code="pDOD" name="DOD" parent="proot" scope="Federal land areas administered by DOD"/><term thcode="1" code="proot" name="Federal lands" parent="fUS" scope="Land areas administered by US Federal agencies"/><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="q49122NWB3" name="Baker Pass" parent="q49122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122NWB1" name="Bearpaw Mountain" parent="q49122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEH2" name="Canyon Lake" parent="q49124NE" 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="q49122SWC2" name="Fortson" parent="q49122SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h17110001" name="Fraser" parent="h171100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122SWB1" name="Gee Point" parent="q49122SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122NWA1" name="Glacier" parent="q49122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122NWA2" name="Groat Mountain" 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="h17110007" name="Lower Skagit" parent="h171100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEH1" name="Maple Falls" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122SWB2" name="Mount Higgins" parent="q49122SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h17110004" name="Nooksack" parent="h171100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="f53057" name="Skagit" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h17110008" name="Stillaguamish" parent="h171100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122NWA3" name="Twin Sisters Mountain" parent="q49122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h17110005" name="Upper Skagit" parent="h171100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q49122NWC3" name="Welker Peak" parent="q49122NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53073" name="Whatcom" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>