<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="q41076NW" name="Allentown" parent="q41076" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q41076" name="Newark" 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 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scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWD3" name="Cementon" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWC1" name="Christmans" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWG3" name="Easton" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWH4" name="Frenchtown" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWA4" name="Hamburg" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWA1" name="Hazleton" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWF4" name="Hellertown" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWE2" name="Kunkletown" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWB4" name="Kutztown" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWC2" name="Lehighton" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWF3" name="Nazareth" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWB2" name="Nesquehoning" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWA3" name="New Ringgold" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWB3" name="New Tripoli" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWD2" name="Palmerton" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWD1" name="Pohopoco Mountain" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWH1" name="Portland" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWG4" name="Riegelsville" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWF1" name="Saylorsburg" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWC3" name="Slatedale" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWG1" name="Stroudsburg" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWA2" name="Tamaqua" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWC4" name="Topton" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWB1" name="Weatherly" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NWF2" name="Wind Gap" parent="q41076NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f42011" name="Berks" parent="fUS42" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f42017" name="Bucks" parent="fUS42" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f42025" name="Carbon" parent="fUS42" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0204" name="Delaware" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f34019" name="Hunterdon" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f42077" name="Lehigh" parent="fUS42" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0203" name="Lower Hudson-Long Island" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f42079" name="Luzerne" parent="fUS42" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f42089" name="Monroe" parent="fUS42" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f42095" name="Northampton" parent="fUS42" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f42107" name="Schuylkill" parent="fUS42" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0205" name="Susquehanna" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f34041" name="Warren" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>