Costa Mesa
| Costa Mesa, California | |||
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| City of Costa Mesa | |||
An aerial view of Costa Mesa in March 2011.
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| Motto: "City of the Arts!" | |||
 Location of Costa Mesa within Orange County, California |
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 Costa Mesa, California
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| Coordinates: 33°39′54″N 117°54′44″W / 33.66500°N 117.91222°WCoordinates: 33°39′54″N 117°54′44″W / 33.66500°N 117.91222°W | |||
| Country |  United States of America |
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 California
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| County |
 Orange
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| Incorporated | June 29, 1953 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Type | Council-CEO | ||
| • City Council |
Mayor Katrina Foley Sandra Genis Allan Mansoor Jim Righeimer John Stephens |
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| • City Manager | Tom Hatch | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 15.700 sq mi (40.662 km2) | ||
| • Land | 15.654 sq mi (40.543 km2) | ||
| • Water | 0.046 sq mi (0.119 km2) 0.29% | ||
| Elevation | 98 ft (30 m) | ||
| Population (2010) | |||
| • Total | 109,960 | ||
| • Rank |
8th in Orange County 54th in California |
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| • Density | 7,000/sq mi (2,700/km2) | ||
| Demonym(s) | Costa Mesan | ||
| Time zone | PST (UTC-8) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) | ||
| ZIP codes | 92626–92628 | ||
| Area code(s) | 714/657/949 | ||
| FIPS code | 06-16532 | ||
| GNIS feature IDs | 1652692, 2410239 | ||
| Website | www |
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Costa Mesa is a city in Orange County, California. The population was 109,960 at the 2010 United States Census. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to a primarily suburban and edge city with an economy based on retail, commerce, and light manufacturing.
Members of the Gabrieleño/Tongva and Juaneño/Luiseño nations long inhabited the area. After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Junípero Serra named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana (Valley of Saint Anne). On November 1, 1776, Mission San Juan Capistrano became the area's first permanent European settlement in Alta California, New Spain.
In 1801, the Spanish Empire granted 62,500 acres (253 km2) to Jose Antonio Yorba, which he named Rancho San Antonio. Yorba's great rancho included the lands where the communities of Olive, Orange, Villa Park, Santa Ana, Tustin, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach stand today.
After the Mexican-American war, California became part of the United States and American settlers arrived in this area and formed the town of Fairview in the 1880s near the modern intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Adams Avenue. An 1889 flood wiped out the railroad serving the community, however, and it shriveled.
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