<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="q34112SW" name="Mesa" parent="q34112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q34112" name="Mesa" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="qroot" name="USGS Quadrangles" parent="fUS" scope="quadrangle"/><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="q34112SWD1" name="Apache Junction" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWD4" name="Blackwater" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWC1" name="Buckhorn" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWB2" name="Chandler" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWC3" name="Chandler Heights" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWD2" name="Desert Well" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWE4" name="Florence" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWF2" name="Florence Junction" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWF3" name="Florence NE" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWF4" name="Florence SE" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWB3" name="Gila Butte" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWA3" name="Gila Butte NW" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWB4" name="Gila Butte SE" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWE1" name="Goldfield" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWH4" name="Grayback" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWA2" name="Guadalupe" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWH1" name="Haunted Canyon" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWC2" name="Higley" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWG1" name="Iron Mountain" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWE3" name="Magma" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWB1" name="Mesa" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWG3" name="Mineral Mountain" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWG4" name="North Butte" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWG2" name="Picketpost Mountain" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWC4" name="Sacaton" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWA4" name="Sacaton Butte" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWD3" name="Sacaton NE" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWH2" name="Superior" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWE2" name="Superstition Mountains SW" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWH3" name="Teapot Mountain" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWA1" name="Tempe" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34112SWF1" name="Weavers Needle" parent="q34112SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f04007" name="Gila" parent="fUS04" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f04013" name="Maricopa" parent="fUS04" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1505" name="Middle Gila" parent="h15" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f04021" name="Pinal" parent="fUS04" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1506" name="Salt" parent="h15" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>