Mesa Historical Museum
Mesa Historical Museum is a museum in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 375 m. East End stands 1,240 m to the north, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Pleasant Shadows Subdivision Mini Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Apache Trail Historic Road passes 15 miles off.
The story
The Mesa Historical Museum in Mesa, Arizona, United States was opened in 1987 by the Mesa Historical Society to preserve the history of Mesa, Arizona. The museum's exhibits include a comprehensive history of Mesa, a replica of an early adobe one-room schoolhouse, as well as additional galleries of changing exhibits. The museum also maintains a large collection of historic agricultural equipment. The museum buildings are in fact its largest artifacts. The main museum building was built in 1913-1914 for use as the Lehi School in what was then Lehi, Arizona. The auditorium was built in the 1930s as a Works Progress Administration project. The two-building complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 as the "Lehi School". In 2008, the museum began developing a popular exhibit about Spring Training (baseball) in Arizona, called "Play Ball: The Cactus League Experience." The exhibition has since expanded to locations throughout Maricopa County.
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Dates from 1987.
Wikidata Q3179228, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 15.4 mi off the Apache Trail Historic Road
Overlooks nearby
- Fish Creek Vista · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Pleasant Shadows Subdivision Mini Park: 0.7 mi
- Country Manor Subdivision Mini Park: 0.8 mi
- Park of the Canals, Brinton Desert Botanical Garden: 0.9 mi
- Greenbelt Basin: 0.9 mi
- Mesa Meadows Subdivision Water Retention Basin: 1.1 mi
- Mesa Monument: 1.7 mi
- Mesa Grande Cultural Park: 2.5 mi
- Camp Lehi Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Boeing Veteran's Memorial: 5.3 mi
- Never Forget Garden: 5.6 mi
- Scarizona Scaregrounds: 2.6 mi
- Engine 2355: 2.8 mi
- King Ben's Castle: 5.1 mi
- Simply Smashing: 6.5 mi
- Bam Kazam: 6.9 mi
- Pioneer Park Grotto: 3.0 mi
- Pioneer Park Monument: 3.0 mi
- The Builder: 3.0 mi
- Autosaurs: 3.1 mi
- W.H. Passey: 3.1 mi
- Sawik Mountain: 6.2 mi
- The Peak: 6.6 mi
- Apache Peak: 6.9 mi
- Hayden Butte: 7.4 mi
- Hole in the Rock: 7.6 mi
- Brinton Desert Botanical Garden: 0.9 mi
- Pioneer Park Rose Garden: 3.0 mi
- Mesa Urban Garden: 3.2 mi
- Escalante Community Garden: 5.4 mi
- Scottsdale Community Garden: 5.5 mi
- Arizona Museum of Natural History: 3.1 mi
- idea Museum: 3.2 mi
- Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum: 3.2 mi
- Zarco Guerrero: 3.4 mi
- Hoo-Hoogam Ki Museum: 3.6 mi
- Public Viewing Area: 5.0 mi
- Elliot Ramada: 8.1 mi
- Granite Reef: 8.5 mi
- Ramada #2=: 9.3 mi
- Ramada #1: 9.3 mi
- Hayden Butte Preserve: 7.4 mi
- Echo Canyon Recreation Area: 9.8 mi
- Usery Mountain Regional Park: 11.5 mi
- Desert Breeze Hummingbird Habitat: 11.9 mi
- South Mountain Preserve: 13.9 mi
- Mountain Spring: 14.8 mi
- Cottonwood Spring: 18.2 mi
- Agua Chiquita Spring: 20.9 mi
- Hackberry Spring: 21.6 mi
- Second Water Spring: 23.4 mi
- Coon Bluff: 11.2 mi
- Gardeners Wall: 15.4 mi
- Blue Point: 15.6 mi
- Morrells Wall: 15.7 mi
- Chinese Wall: 15.8 mi
- Illinois: 8.8 mi
- Sandy Beach: 21.3 mi
- Goldfield Ghost Town: 18.7 mi
- Massacre Falls: 21.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.8 miles of Mesa Historical Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| East End | N 3° | 1,240 m | 15.3 mi |
| McDowell Peak | N 359° | 1,230 m | 13.9 mi |
| Thompson Peak | N 0° | 1,214 m | 12.8 mi |
| Tom's Thumb | N 0° | 1,196 m | 15.4 mi |
| Drinkwater Peak | N 357° | 1,192 m | 14.0 mi |
| Dome Mountain | E 79° | 1,009 m | 15.8 mi |
| Pass Mountain | E 81° | 1,007 m | 12.6 mi |
| Sunrise Peak | N 10° | 935 m | 10.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:32 | 18:06 | 18:39 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:04 | 19:41 |
| September equinox | 06:16 | 17:53 | 18:25 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:46 | 17:24 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 55 | 57 | 63 | 69 | 77 | 85 | 91 | 90 | 85 | 74 | 62 | 54 |
| Precip in | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tempe ASU, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/1082451465
Day trips start here
- Mesa · 3 mi
- Tempe · 6 mi
- Scottsdale · 7 mi
- Gilbert · 8 mi
- Chandler · 11 mi
- Fountain Hills · 11 mi
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