<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="q41074NW" name="Long Island West" parent="q41074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q41074" name="New York" 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="q41074NWE3" name="Amityville" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWG3" name="Bay Shore East" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWG4" name="Bay Shore East Oe S" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWF3" name="Bay Shore West" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWF4" name="Bay Shore West Oe S" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWD1" name="Bayville" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWA3" name="Brooklyn" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWG2" name="Central Islip" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWA2" name="Central Park" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWA4" name="Coney Island" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWB4" name="Far Rockaway" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWB2" name="Flushing" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWD3" name="Freeport" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWF2" name="Greenlawn" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWD2" name="Hicksville" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWE2" name="Huntington" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWB3" name="Jamaica" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWD4" name="Jones Inlet" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWC4" name="Lawrence" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWE1" name="Lloyd Harbor" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWC3" name="Lynbrook" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWC1" name="Mamaroneck" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWB1" name="Mount Vernon" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWF1" name="Northport" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWH2" name="Patchogue" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWH1" name="Port Jefferson" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWG1" name="Saint James" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWH3" name="Sayville" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWC2" name="Sea Cliff" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWE4" name="West Gilgo Beach" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074NWA1" name="Yonkers" parent="q41074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f34003" name="Bergen" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36005" name="Bronx" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0110" name="Connecticut Coastal" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f09001" name="Fairfield" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34017" name="Hudson" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36047" name="Kings" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0203" name="Lower Hudson-Long Island" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f36059" name="Nassau" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36061" name="New York" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36081" name="Queens" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36087" name="Rockland" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36103" name="Suffolk" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36119" name="Westchester" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>