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Maricopa County, about 504,258 residents.
Mesa, Maricopa County
Well-Known Places in Mesa
Mesa Arts Center, Arizona Museum of Natural History, Usery Mountain Regional Park.
Mesa Business Districts
- Downtown Mesa
- Fiesta District
- Falcon District
- Gateway
Major Employers in Mesa
Banner Health, Boeing, Mesa Public Schools, Dignity Health, Mountain Vista Medical Center.
About Mesa, Maricopa County
Mesa is Arizona's third-largest city and the most populous U.S. municipality that is not a county seat, a sprawling East Valley suburb of Phoenix that grew from Mormon farm colony to a half-million-person tech, aerospace and tourism hub. Founded in 1878 by Mormon pioneers who cleared thousand-year-old Hohokam canals to irrigate the desert, it still carries the geography in its name: mesa, Spanish for tabletop. Today it is spring-training home of the Chicago Cubs and the manufacturing home of the Apache attack helicopter.
History of Mesa
- Settled and founded in 1878 by Mormon pioneers (the "Mesa Company") who reopened ancient Hohokam irrigation canals to divert Salt River water onto the mesa top
- The settlement effort began when Mormon official Daniel Webster Jones led a party from St. George, Utah, into Arizona in March 1877
- Originally named "Lehi"; renamed "Mesa" in 1883 because the word better described the tableland geography
Landmarks and Places in Mesa
- Mesa Arizona Temple (dedicated 1927), one of the oldest LDS temples in Arizona
The Mesa Economy
- Boeing's Mesa operation won a $2.7 billion U.S. Army Apache support contract
- Falcon Field, one of the top five busiest general-aviation airports in the U.S. with more than 270,000 operations annually, anchors the northeast Mesa aerospace corridor
Community Life in Mesa
- Spring-training home of the Chicago Cubs since the early 1950s; Sloan Park is the largest stadium in the Cactus League, seating about 15,000
- Mesa Arts Center, the largest arts and entertainment complex in the Southwest, hosts concerts, theater and exhibitions
- Festivals include the Mesa Music Festival, the Arizona Renaissance Festival and the Merry Main Street holiday celebration
Local reference: en.wikipedia.org, www.britannica.com, kjzz.org
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