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Mesa is an incorporated city in Maricopa County, Arizona, and the third-most populous city in the state.

The 2020 census counted 504,258 residents in Mesa.

Mesa is the most populous city in the United States that is not a county seat.

The Mesa City townsite was registered on July 17, 1878, and the city was incorporated in 1883, when it had about 300 residents.

The area's original canal system was built by the prehistoric Hohokam people and ranked among the largest and most sophisticated in the prehistoric New World, and many of those canals remain in use today.

Mormon pioneers, including Daniel Webster Jones's party, founded the settlement of Lehi in 1877, and the First Mesa Company settled on the mesa that gave the city its name.

Mesa covers about 139 square miles and stretches roughly 18 miles from east to west.

The Mesa Arizona Temple, one of the first temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built outside Utah, stands in the city.

Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, built on the former Williams Air Force Base, which closed in 1993, is the Phoenix area's largest relief airport, and nearby Falcon Field served as a World War II training field for British Royal Air Force pilots.

Boeing builds the AH-64 Apache helicopter at a plant adjoining Falcon Field.