Maize is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States,[1] and a suburb of Wichita.

The post office opened that same year as did the town's first church, having relocated from nearby.

Maize State Bank, the town's first financial institution, opened in 1901, and, by 1908, a business community had emerged.

[7] Several natural disasters struck Maize in the 1930s and 1940s, including the Dust Bowl in 1934–35, a plague of grasshoppers in 1936, and a flood in 1944.

[7] This growth has continued, accelerating in recent years as Wichita has expanded to the northwest, and transformed Maize into a suburb.

[1] It lies on the west side of Big Slough Creek, roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of the Arkansas River in the Wellington-McPherson Lowlands region of the Great Plains.

Located in south-central Kansas, Maize is on K-96, immediately northwest of Wichita.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.84 square miles (22.90 km2), all land.

[9] Maize is part of the Wichita, KS Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The 2020 United States census counted 5,735 people, 2,111 households, and 1,498 families in Maize.

The city council consists of the mayor and five members who serve part-time.

Questions of jurisdictional responsibility relating to highways and infrastructure as well as law enforcement authority have long been an issue of misunderstanding amongst city leaders.

Currently, sheriff’s deputies and members of the Kansas Highway Patrol are tasked with all law enforcement and investigative responsibility.

The Hutchinson line of the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad runs southeast–northwest through Maize.