<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="q42074NW" name="Waterbury" parent="q42074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q42074" name="Hartford" 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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Valley" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWA3" name="Poughkeepsie" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWC4" name="Poughquag" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWB1" name="Rock City" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWF4" name="Roxbury" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWB2" name="Salt Point" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWE1" name="Sharon" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWF1" name="South Canaan" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWH3" name="Thomaston" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWH2" name="Torrington" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWC3" name="Verbank" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWA4" name="Wappingers Falls" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWH4" name="Waterbury" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWG2" name="West Torrington" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWH1" name="Winsted" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWG4" name="Woodbury" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f36021" name="Columbia" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0108" name="Connecticut" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0110" name="Connecticut Coastal" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f36027" name="Dutchess" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f09001" name="Fairfield" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f09003" name="Hartford" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f09005" name="Litchfield" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0203" name="Lower Hudson-Long Island" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f09009" name="New Haven" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36071" name="Orange" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36079" name="Putnam" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36111" name="Ulster" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0202" name="Upper Hudson" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>