<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="q43080NE" name="Buffalo" parent="q43080" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q43080" name="Buffalo" 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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code="q43080NEB2" name="Buffalo SE" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEA2" name="Buffalo SE Oe W" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEH3" name="Castile" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NED1" name="Clarence" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEC3" name="Colden" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEE1" name="Corfu" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEE2" name="Cowlesville" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEG2" name="Dale" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NED2" name="East Aurora" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEA3" name="Eden" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEB3" name="Hamburg" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NED3" name="Holland" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEF3" name="Johnsonburg" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEC1" name="Lancaster" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEB4" name="Langford" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEA4" name="North Collins" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEC2" name="Orchard Park" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEG4" name="Pike" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEH4" name="Portageville" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NED4" name="Sardinia" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEC4" name="Springville" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEH1" name="Stafford" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEE3" name="Strykersville" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEG3" name="Warsaw" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080NEH2" name="Wyoming" parent="q43080NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f36003" name="Allegany" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36009" name="Cattaraugus" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0412" name="Eastern Lake Erie-Lake Erie" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f36029" name="Erie" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36037" name="Genesee" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36051" name="Livingston" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0413" name="Southwestern Lake Ontario" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f36121" name="Wyoming" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>