Editing Maloy, Iowa (section)

==History==
Settlement of the western part of Ringgold County began in the 1850s.  Maloy was platted in 1887, in the same year as the railroad arrived.  Maloy was incorporated as a city in 1901.  In 1917, the two-story brick Maloy High School was built; after serving from 1920 to 1952, it became an elementary school in the Mount Ayr Community School District.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

A major fire on June 17, 1931, razed the Catholic Church, five businesses, a house, and a barn.<ref>Mount Ayr Record-News, June 18, 1931</ref>   The school closed in 1972 and was torn down in 1987.  The railroad, which once offered both freight and passenger service, was dismantled in 1985.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}