Editing Costa Mesa, California (section)

===Annual cultural events===

The [[Orange County Fair (California)|Orange County Fair]] takes place at the fairgrounds in Costa Mesa each July. The Fair receives more than one million visitors each year.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Money |first=Luke |date=August 24, 2018 |title=Record 1.47 million visitors pack 2018 O.C. Fair |work=Daily Pilot |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-oc-fair-numbers-20180814-story.html |access-date=March 17, 2022 |archive-date=March 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317155114/https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-oc-fair-numbers-20180814-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Annual Scarecrow & Pumpkin Festival was first held in 1938, went on hiatus for seven decades, and then was restarted in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Graham|first1=Jordan|title=Scarecrows face off in Costa Mesa competition|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2015/10/19/scarecrows-face-off-in-costa-mesa-competition|newspaper=[[The Orange County Register]]|date=October 18, 2015|access-date=July 12, 2020|archive-date=July 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715033218/https://www.ocregister.com/2015/10/19/scarecrows-face-off-in-costa-mesa-competition/|url-status=live}}</ref>