<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="q45076NE" name="Massena" parent="q45076" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q45076" name="Ogdensburg" 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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thcode="1" code="q45076NEH1" name="Chateaugay" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEA4" name="Colton" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEF1" name="Constable" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEG4" name="Debar Mountain" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEE1" name="Fort Covington" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEC1" name="Hogansburg" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NED4" name="Lake Ozonia" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEF3" name="Lake Titus" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEH4" name="Loon Lake" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEF2" name="Malone" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEA1" name="Massena" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEF4" name="Meacham Lake" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEE4" name="Meno" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEC3" name="Nicholville" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEA2" name="Norfolk" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEC2" name="North Lawrence" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEG3" name="Owls Head" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEB3" name="Parishville" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEA3" name="Potsdam" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEH3" name="Ragged Lake" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEB4" name="Rainbow Falls" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEB1" name="Raquette River" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NED3" name="Saint Regis Falls" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEE3" name="Santa Clara" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076NEC4" name="Sylvan Falls" parent="q45076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f36019" name="Clinton" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36033" name="Franklin" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0415" name="Northeastern Lake Ontario-Lake Ontario-St. Law" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0201" name="Richelieu" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f36089" name="Saint Lawrence" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>