Costa Mesa, California

Costa Mesa is a city in Orange County, California, in the United States, whose name is Spanish for Mesa Coast. It was incorporated in 1953, when it was a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 people, and it has since grown into an urban area that includes part of the South Coast Plaza and John Wayne Airport edge city, one of the largest commercial clusters in the region. Its economy rests on retail, commerce and light manufacturing. The 2020 census counted 111,918 residents. The city uses the motto City of the Arts and has the nickname Goat Hill. The Diego Sepúlveda Adobe is pictured among its landmarks.