Mesa, Arizona Mesa, Arizona City of Mesa Mesa Bank and Mesa Arts Center building in downtown Mesa Mesa Bank and Mesa Arts Center building in downtown Mesa Flag of Mesa, Arizona Mesa is positioned in the US Mesa - Mesa Mesa (/ me s / may-s ) is a town/city in Maricopa County, in the U.S.
Mesa is the central town/city of the East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.
As of the 2010 Enumeration Mesa became Arizona's center of population.
Mesa is the third-largest town/city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson, and the 38th-largest town/city in the US.
Mesa is home to various college studies facilities including the Polytechnic ground of Arizona State University.
2.1 Defining east and west Mesa 2.1.1.2 Mesa Drive 5.1 Historic properties in Mesa 6.2 West Mesa 6.3 East Mesa See also: Timeline of Mesa, Arizona The history of Mesa dates back at least 2,000 years to the arrival of the Hohokam citizens .
George, Utah in March 1877, Jones and the rest appeared at Lehi, an region inside the northern edge of present-day Mesa.
At the same time, another group dubbed the First Mesa Company appeared from Utah and Idaho.
Rather than accepting an invitation to settle at Jones' Lehi settlement, they moved to the top of the mesa that serves as the city's namesake.
They dug irrigation canals, some of which were over the initial Hohokam canals, and by April 1878, water was flowing through them. The Second Mesa Company appeared in 1879 and settled to the west of where the First Mesa Company settled in 1880, due to lack of available farmland.
On July 17, 1878, Mesa City was registered as a 1-square-mile (2.6 km2) townsite.
In 1883, Mesa City was incorporated with a populace of 300 citizens .
Chandler, who would later go on to found the town/city of Chandler, worked on widening the Mesa Canal in 1895 to allow for enough flow to build a power plant.
In 1917, the town/city of Mesa purchased the utility company.
With the opening of Falcon Field and Williams Field in the early 1940s, more military personnel began to move into the Mesa area.
With the advent of air conditioning and the rise of tourism, populace growth exploded in Mesa as well as the rest of the Phoenix area.
As late as 1960, half of the inhabitants of Mesa made a living with agriculture, but this has declined substantially as Mesa's suburban expansion continued on track with the rest of the Phoenix metro area. Due to Mesa's extremely long east to west travel distance, in excess of 18 miles (29 km) and large territory area 133.13 square miles (344.8 km2), locations in Mesa are often referred to as residing inside either East Mesa or West Mesa. Mesa employs a grid fitness for street numbering that is different from that used in Phoenix and other portions of the urbane area.
Center Street, running north to south, bisects Mesa into easterly and halves and serves as the east and west numbering point of origin inside Mesa.
Are considered to be in West Mesa, whereas streets east of Center St., such as E.
Mesa Drive, running north to south and bisecting Mesa into east and west sections, is positioned 0.5 miles (800 m) east of Center Street, and serves as the zip code boundary between the 85281, 85201, 85202, and 85210 zip codes of Western Mesa and the 85203, 85204, 85205, 85206, 85207, 85208, 85209, 85212, 85213, 85215, 85220, and 85242 zip codes of Eastern Mesa. Country Club Drive, running north to south and bisecting Mesa into east and west sections, is positioned 0.5 miles (800 m) west of Center St, and serves as the jurisdictional boundary between Arizona's 5th and 6th congressional districts. Note that this same road (as Arizona Avenue) serves as the official east and west numbering point of origin inside the town/city of Chandler, positioned south of Mesa.
Located in the Sonoran Desert, Mesa has a desert climate (Koppen: BWh), with mild winters and very hot summers.
Climate data for Mesa, Arizona According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition of Mesa was as follows: Mesa's inhabitants exhibit a great deal of economic range, with low-income areas constructed somewhat close to high-scale neighborhoods with expensive custom homes.
The neighborhood "Marlborough Mesa" has won a improve award. 2 Mesa Public Schools 8,500 4 City of Mesa 3,545 8 Mesa Community College 1,002 LDS Mesa Arizona Temple with Christmas lights Ho - Ho - Kam Park of the Cactus League, home of the Oakland Athletics and former home of the Chicago Cubs amid spring training, the WAC Baseball Tournament and former summer home to the now defunct Mesa Miners experienced baseball team of the Golden Baseball League Mesa Arts Center Mesa Arizona Temple, a large LDS temple, where an Easter Pageant is held every spring Mesa Historical Museum Main article: List of historic properties in Mesa, Arizona Numerous properties in the town/city are considered to be historical and have been encompassed either in the National Register of Historic Places or the listings of the Mesa Historic Properties.
Historic Mesa, Arizona (MHP = Mesa Historic Properties) Sirrine House, assembled in 1896 (NRHP) Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Architect, builder, or engineer: Sirrine, Joel E., Architectural Style: Queen Anne, Area of Significance: Architecture, Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1875-1899.
Angulo-Hostetter House, assembled in 1902 (NRHP) Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Architectural Style: Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, Area of Significance: Architecture, Period of Significance: 1925-1949, 1900-1924.
Strauch-Fuller House, assembled in 1906 (NRHP) Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Architect, builder, or engineer: Unknown, Architectural Style: Mission/Spanish Revival, Area of Significance: Architecture, Period of Significance: 1900-1924.
In Mesa.
The residence belonged to Robert Scott, a wealthy Mesa sheep farmer and large landowner, who was a co-founder of the Salt River Bank.
The Scott House originally stood inside the initial Mesa townsite on the corner of First and Sirrine Streets, and when instead of was among the several large formal residences in Mesa.
Spangler-Wilbur House, assembled in 1915, (NRHP) Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Architect, builder, or engineer: Home Builders Inc., Architectural Style: Colonial Revival, Mission/Spanish Revival, Area of Significance: Architecture, Period of Significance: 1900-1924.
Lucius Charles Alston House is associated with the history of the evolution of the African American improve in Mesa.
Alston's office while practicing medicine in Mesa.
Mesa Journal--Tribune FHA Demonstration Home.
Mesa Women's Club, assembled in 1931 (NRHP) Historic Significance: Event, Area of Significance: Social History, Period of Significance: 1925-1949.
In Mesa.
Williams Air Force Base (now part of Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport) in Mesa, Arizona (MHP = Mesa Historic Properties) Demountable Hangar positioned at the North Apron, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (formerly Williams AFB), Mesa, Arizona.
(formerly Alaska Dr.), at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic ground (formerly Williams AFB), Mesa, Arizona.
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Mesa has over 2,280 acres of parkland in the town/city limits.
Mesa is home to various championship golf courses, including the initial course in town, Mesa Country Club. This course was established in the late 1940s by the initial leaders of the town, and "Country Club Drive", the most prominent street in Mesa, was at one point the modest entrance to the club.
Main articles: Fiesta Mall and Mesa Riverview The Fiesta Mall is positioned in West Mesa, and owned by Westcor.
It is positioned near a several shopping centers, Mesa's Bank of America, and other retail stores, banks, and restaurants.
Mesa Riverview is a new outside destination retail center in the northwestern corner of the city, near Loop 202 and Dobson Road.
Located in East Mesa is Superstition Springs Business Park. It includes the Superstition Springs Center, a shopping mall owned by Westcor.
Mesa is a competitor of Special Olympics Arizona.
Almost all of the town/city of Mesa is served by enhance schools directed by Mesa Public Schools; however, a small southern portion is served by the Gilbert Public Schools, and a small portion is served by the Tempe Elementary School District and the Tempe Union High School District.
Mesa is home to Mesa Community College, the biggest of the Maricopa Community Colleges, which enrolls over 24,000 full and part-time students.
The Polytechnic ground of Arizona State University lies in southeast Mesa.
Still University operates an Osteopathic Medical School in Mesa.
The aviation school CAE Global Academy Phoenix is positioned in Mesa.
After launching a college studies initiative in 2012, Mesa became home to branch campuses of five private, liberal arts instituations: Albright College, Westminster College, Benedictine University, Upper Iowa University and Wilkes University. Two have since left (Albright College and Westminster College), while a third, Wilkes University, recently announced it would move entirely online. Mesa City Hall in downtown Mesa Several region freeways serve the Mesa area, such as U.S.
Public transit is provided by Valley Metro with some north-south routes (routes 104-Alma School, 120-Mesa Drive, 128-Stapley, and 136-Gilbert Road) running Monday through Saturday only; until July 2008, Mesa was the biggest U.S.
Mesa is connected to the Valley Metro Rail.
The light rail in Mesa spans about four miles from Sycamore/Main St in the west of the city, through downtown to Mesa Dr/Main St.
Carl Hayden Arizona senator, and its first representative in the House; died in Mesa on January 25, 1972 Jack Taylor mayor of Mesa from 1966 to 1972; after that a member, consecutively, of both homes of the Arizona State Legislature; interred at Mesa City Cemetery Worsley educator, formerly with Mesa High School and Mesa Community College Mesa has five sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Mesa Distance Learning Program "A Brief History of Mesa, Arizona: Hohokam", Mesalibrary.org, City of Mesa Library, July 2003, archived from the initial on March 7, 2012, retrieved March 13, 2012 "A Brief History of Mesa, Arizona: First Mesa Company", Mesalibrary.org, City of Mesa Library, July 2003, archived from the initial on October 7, 2011, retrieved March 13, 2012 "A Brief History of Mesa, Arizona: Second Mesa Company", Mesalibrary.org, City of Mesa Library, July 2003, archived from the initial on October 7, 2011, retrieved March 13, 2012 "A Brief History of Mesa, Arizona: Mesa City - 1878 to Depression", Mesalibrary.org, City of Mesa Library, July 2003, archived from the initial on March 7, 2012, retrieved March 13, 2012 "A Brief History of Mesa, Arizona: World War II to Present", Mesalibrary.org, City of Mesa Library, July 2003, archived from the initial on March 7, 2012, retrieved March 13, 2012 "Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Enumeration to 1990".
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Mesa Historic Properties "Red Mountain Park" City of Mesa, Arizona.
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