<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="q49124NE" name="Bellingham" parent="q49124" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q49124" name="Victoria" 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="q49124NEG3" name="Acme" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEF4" name="Alger" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NED4" name="Anacortes North" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEE2" name="Bellingham North" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEE3" name="Bellingham South" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NED1" name="Bertrand Creek" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEB1" name="Birch Point" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEC1" name="Blaine" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEB4" name="Blakely Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEE4" name="Bow" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEH2" name="Canyon Lake" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEH3" name="Cavanaugh Creek" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEC4" name="Cypress Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEG2" name="Deming" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEA3" name="Eastsound" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NED3" name="Eliza Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NED2" name="Ferndale" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEG1" name="Kendall" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEF3" name="Lake Whatcom" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEF2" name="Lawrence" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEC2" name="Lummi Bay" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEB2" name="Lummi Bay Oe W" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEC3" name="Lummi Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEH4" name="Lyman" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEE1" name="Lynden" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEH1" name="Maple Falls" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEB3" name="Mount Constitution" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEG4" name="Sedro-woolley North" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEA4" name="Shaw Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEA2" name="Sucia Island" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49124NEF1" name="Sumas" parent="q49124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="h1711" name="Puget Sound" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f53055" name="San Juan" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f53057" name="Skagit" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f53073" name="Whatcom" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>