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Maize is a fast-growing city in Sedgwick County, a northwestern suburb of Wichita in south-central Kansas.

The Maize Town Company, led by N. F. Neiderlander, founded Maize in 1886 at the first stop outside Wichita on the Wichita and Colorado Railway; the post office and the town's first church opened that same year.

The name Maize is derived from a Native American word for "corn," fitting the town's location within the Corn Belt.

Maize's first school opened in 1887, its first newspaper in 1895, and the Maize State Bank, the town's first financial institution, opened in 1901.

When the Maize Town Company dissolved in 1915, Maize was incorporated as a city.

The young town was battered by a string of natural disasters: the Dust Bowl in 1934-35, a plague of grasshoppers in 1936, and a flood in 1944.

Maize began growing rapidly in 1950, more than doubling in size by 1956, and growth has accelerated in recent years as Wichita has expanded to the northwest.

The 2020 census counted 5,735 people in Maize, up sharply from 3,420 in 2010, and a 2024 Census estimate put the population at 7,059.

Of Maize's 2,111 households in the 2020 census, 40.5 percent included children under the age of 18, and the city's median age was just 33.3 years.

Maize USD 266 operates eighteen schools in and around the city.