<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="h02010002" name="Otter" parent="h020100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h020100" name="Richelieu" parent="h0201" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0201" name="Richelieu" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h02" name="Mid Atlantic" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><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><rt><term thcode="1" code="f50001" name="Addison" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f50003" name="Bennington" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="p2422" name="Big Branch Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NWG3" name="Bomoseen" parent="q44074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NWH2" name="Brandon" parent="q44074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEA1" name="Bread Loaf" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2445" name="Breadloaf Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NWF1" name="Bridport" parent="q44074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SWH3" name="Bristol" parent="q45074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2448" name="Bristol Cliffs Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SWF2" name="Charlotte" parent="q45074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f50007" name="Chittenden" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEA3" name="Chittenden" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NWG1" name="Cornwall" parent="q44074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NWE1" name="Crown Point" parent="q44074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEA2" name="Danby" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SWH2" name="Dorset" parent="q44074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NWH1" name="East Middlebury" parent="q44074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36031" name="Essex" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="p1197" name="Green Mountain National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SWH2" name="Hinesburg" parent="q45074SW" 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="q44074NEB4" name="Killington Peak" parent="q44074NE" 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="q44074SWH3" name="Manchester" parent="q44074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SWG4" name="Middlebury" parent="q45074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SWH1" name="Middletown Springs" parent="q44074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEA2" name="Mount Carmel" parent="q44074NE" 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="q44074SEB1" name="Mount Holly" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SWG2" name="Mount Philo" parent="q45074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NWF2" name="Orwell" parent="q44074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEA3" name="Peru" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2659" name="Peru Peak Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEB3" name="Pico Peak" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SWE4" name="Port Henry" parent="q45074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NWH3" name="Proctor" parent="q44074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f50021" name="Rutland" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEA4" name="Rutland" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SWF4" name="Snake Mountain" parent="q45074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SWH4" name="South Mountain" parent="q45074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NWG2" name="Sudbury" parent="q44074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SWG3" name="Vergennes East" parent="q45074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074SWF3" name="Vergennes West" parent="q45074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEA1" name="Wallingford" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f50023" name="Washington" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NWH4" name="West Rutland" parent="q44074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEB2" name="Weston" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1549" name="White Rocks National Recreation Area" parent="p34" scope="National Recreation Area"/><term thcode="1" code="f50027" name="Windsor" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>