<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="q46110NE" name="Billings" parent="q46110" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q46110" name="Billings" 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="q46110NED1" name="Hickson Ranch" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEF1" name="Huntley" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEG2" name="Indian Arrow" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEB3" name="Laurel" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEA2" name="Molt" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEA4" name="Montaqua" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEC3" name="Mossmain" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEC4" name="Mossmain SW" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEH1" name="Nibbe" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEH3" name="North Telegraph Creek" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEA3" name="Park City" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEE1" name="Rattlesnake Butte" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEC2" name="Rimrock" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEA1" name="Rock Spring" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEB4" name="Silesia" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEF4" name="Soda Springs" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEE3" name="Soda Springs NW" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NED4" name="Stratford Hill" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEB2" name="Two Pine School" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEE4" name="Vale Creek Ranch" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEG4" name="Woody Mountain" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEG3" name="Woody Mountain NW" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEH4" name="Woody Mountain SE" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NEG1" name="Worden" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110NED3" name="Yegen" parent="q46110NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="h1008" name="Big Horn" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f30003" name="Big Horn" parent="fUS30" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f30009" name="Carbon" parent="fUS30" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f30095" name="Stillwater" parent="fUS30" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1007" name="Upper Yellowstone" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f30111" name="Yellowstone" parent="fUS30" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>