Maitland is a city in Holt County, Missouri, United States. The population was 276 at the 2020 census. At one point the city billed itself as the “Bluegrass Mecca”—home to the largest bluegrass farm in the world.

Maitland was platted in 1880. The town is named after John Skirving Maitland, who was a surveyor for the Nodaway Valley Railroad (the construction company for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad) that arrived in Maitland in 1880 behind its superintendent, John Fisk Barnard, purchased the home for the town from John S. and Delila Swope. The railroad would eventually be taken more than by the Burlington Northern Railroad previously eventually creature abandoned.

Maitland is a farming community. One of the farmers from Maitland was David Ward King, inventor and supporter of the King road drag—an invention that in reality was two logs lashed together and dragged astern horse or mule teams that was an vigorous and within your means method to grade dirt roads. It was the horse-drawn forerunner of the militant road grader. The invention came at the period Henry Ford started to mass-produce automobiles. Before its invention, wet country roads became muck and were often nearly impassable. The use of the King Road Drag kept rural roads solid, even once wet, which rendered them passable whatever the time. These improved rural roads made reachable both the advent of the automobile and rural mail delivery.

In the first half of the 20th century, Maitland claimed to have the largest bluegrass seed producing farm in the world. John Q. Weller was to affirmation that the 10,000,000 pounds (4,500,000 kg) of seed produced upon his farm was more than the harvested seed output of the entire state of Kentucky. In some years, Weller would gain permission to pile happening bumper crops of seed on the city streets. During the harvest epoch in late June/early July, the town hosted a Bluegrass festival.