<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="q45074SE" name="Montpelier" parent="q45074" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q45074" name="Lake Champlain" 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="q45074SEH2" name="Barnet" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEE3" name="Barre East" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SED3" name="Barre West" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEB1" name="Bolton Mountain" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SED4" name="Brookfield" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEF1" name="Cabot" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEG4" name="East Corinth" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEG3" name="Groton" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEA2" name="Huntington" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEG1" name="Joes Pond" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEF3" name="Knox Mountain" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEA4" name="Lincoln" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEF2" name="Marshfield" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEC2" name="Middlesex" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SED2" name="Montpelier" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEA3" name="Mount Ellen" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SED1" name="Mount Worcester" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEH4" name="Newbury" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEC3" name="Northfield" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEG2" name="Peacham" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEE2" name="Plainfield" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEA1" name="Richmond" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEC4" name="Roxbury" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEH1" name="Saint Johnsbury" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEC1" name="Stowe" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEB3" name="Waitsfield" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEB4" name="Warren" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEE4" name="Washington" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEB2" name="Waterbury" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEF4" name="West Topsham" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEE1" name="Woodbury" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SEH3" name="Woodsville" parent="q45074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f50001" name="Addison" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f50005" name="Caledonia" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f50007" name="Chittenden" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0108" name="Connecticut" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f33009" name="Grafton" parent="fUS33" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f50015" name="Lamoille" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f50017" name="Orange" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0201" name="Richelieu" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f50023" name="Washington" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>