<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="q39120NW" name="Smith Valley" parent="q39120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q39120" name="Walker Lake" 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="q39120NWF1" name="Artesia Lake" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWA3" name="Carson Pass" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWC2" name="Carters Station" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWD4" name="Coleville" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWF4" name="Desert Creek Peak" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWF3" name="Desert Creek Ranch" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWD2" name="Double Spring" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWB4" name="Ebbetts Pass" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWA2" name="Freel Peak" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWC1" name="Gardnerville" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWC3" name="Heenan Lake" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWE3" name="Long Dry Canyon" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWB3" name="Markleeville" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWB1" name="Minden" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWG3" name="Mount Etna" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWD1" name="Mount Siegel" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWG4" name="Nye Canyon" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWE2" name="Oreana Peak" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWA4" name="Pacific Valley" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWH3" name="Pine Grove Spring" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWE1" name="Pine Nut Valley" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWE4" name="Risue Canyon" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWF2" name="Smith" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWA1" name="South Lake Tahoe" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWD3" name="Topaz Lake" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWH4" name="Wichman Canyon" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWG2" name="Wilson Canyon" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWC4" name="Wolf Creek" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWB2" name="Woodfords" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWG1" name="Yerington" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWH1" name="Yerington NE" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NWH2" name="Yerington SE" parent="q39120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f06003" name="Alpine" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1605" name="Central Lahontan" parent="h16" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f32005" name="Douglas" parent="fUS32" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f06017" name="El Dorado" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f32019" name="Lyon" parent="fUS32" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f32021" name="Mineral" parent="fUS32" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f06051" name="Mono" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1802" name="Sacramento" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1804" name="San Joaquin" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>