<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="q48120SW" name="Moses Lake" parent="q48120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q48120" name="Ritzville" 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="q48120SWF2" name="Gloyd" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWE2" name="Grant Orchards" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWD1" name="Little Soap Lake" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWE4" name="Mae" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWB2" name="Monument Hill" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWE3" name="Moses Lake NW" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWF3" name="Moses Lake North" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWF4" name="Moses Lake South" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWA1" name="Palisades" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWH2" name="Wilson Creek SE" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWG2" name="Wilson Creek SW" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWC3" name="Winchester" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWD3" name="Winchester NE" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWD4" name="Winchester SE" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48120SWC4" name="Winchester SW" parent="q48120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f53017" name="Douglas" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f53025" name="Grant" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f53037" name="Kittitas" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1702" name="Upper Columbia" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>