<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="q43072SW" name="Boston" parent="q43072" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q43072" name="Boston" 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="q43072SWD4" name="Blackstone" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWH3" name="Blue Hills" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWH1" name="Boston North" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWH2" name="Boston South" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWH4" name="Brockton" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWC1" name="Clinton" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWF1" name="Concord" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWE2" name="Framingham" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWE4" name="Franklin" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWC3" name="Grafton" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWE3" name="Holliston" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWD1" name="Hudson" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWA3" name="Leicester" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWG1" name="Lexington" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWG4" name="Mansfield" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWD2" name="Marlborough" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWE1" name="Maynard" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWF3" name="Medfield" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWD3" name="Milford" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWF2" name="Natick" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWG2" name="Newton" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWG3" name="Norwood" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWB4" name="Oxford" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWA2" name="Paxton" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWC2" name="Shrewsbury" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWB1" name="Sterling" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWC4" name="Uxbridge" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWA1" name="Wachusett Mountain" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWA4" name="Webster" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWB2" name="Worcester North" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWB3" name="Worcester South" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43072SWF4" name="Wrentham" parent="q43072SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f25005" name="Bristol" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0108" name="Connecticut" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0110" name="Connecticut Coastal" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f25009" name="Essex" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0109" name="Massachusetts-Rhode Island Coastal" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0107" name="Merrimack" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f25017" name="Middlesex" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f25021" name="Norfolk" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f25023" name="Plymouth" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f44007" name="Providence" parent="fUS44" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f25025" name="Suffolk" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f09015" name="Windham" parent="fUS09" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f25027" name="Worcester" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>