Editing Maize, Kansas (section)

==History==
The Maize Town Company, led by N. F. Neiderlander, founded Maize in 1886 at the first stop outside of Wichita on the Wichita and Colorado Railway. The post office opened that same year as did the town's first church, having relocated from nearby. Maize's first school opened in 1887; its first newspaper opened in 1895. Maize State Bank, the town's first financial institution, opened in 1901, and, by 1908, a business community had emerged. In 1915, the Maize Town Company dissolved, and Maize was [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] as a city.<ref name=History>{{cite web | title = History | publisher = City of Maize | year = 1986 | url = http://www.cityofmaize.org/history.php | accessdate = August 16, 2010}}</ref>

Several natural disasters struck Maize in the 1930s and 1940s, including the [[Dust Bowl]] in 1934–35, a plague of [[grasshopper]]s in 1936, and a flood in 1944.<ref name=History/>

Maize began to grow rapidly in 1950, more than doubling in size by 1956.<ref name=History/> This growth has continued, accelerating in recent years as Wichita has expanded to the northwest, and transformed Maize into a suburb.<ref name=Chamber/>