Concrete staining in Midwest City
Midwest City was built from 1942 by developer W.P. 'Bill' Atkinson to house workers at the Midwest Air Depot, now Tinker Air Force Base, and its first neighborhood, the Original Mile, is still known by that name. The city had 58,409 residents at the 2020 census, and Tinker remains the largest single-site employer in Oklahoma.
Developer W.P. “Bill” Atkinson started building Midwest City in 1942 to house workers at the Midwest Air Depot, which is now Tinker Air Force Base. The first neighbourhood, laid out with Federal Housing Administration input as a model community, is still called the Original Mile: the blocks between SE 15th and SE 29th Streets, from Air Depot Boulevard to Midwest Boulevard. Later ranch-style subdivisions spread east and south from there. The city had 58,409 residents in 2020, and Tinker is still the largest single-site employer in Oklahoma.
The 1940s and 1950s houses in the Original Mile have porches, front walks and stoops that have been through decades of freezes and clay that swells when it gets wet and shrinks when it dries. Plenty of them are still solid. Hairline cracks and a worn, chalky surface are cosmetic, and they can be cleaned, coloured and sealed over.
A slab that has heaved, sunk or broken into pieces is different. Stain only changes the colour of the surface, so it will not hide an uneven step. That concrete needs repair or replacement before any finish goes on. Many Original Mile houses are rentals now, and for a landlord a clean, reseal and stain refresh on a sound porch is a lot cheaper than tearing it out.
Out past the Original Mile, toward Douglas Boulevard and Rose State College, the later ranch homes typically sit on slab with a garage and a back patio. Those are the usual places for colour: a stained garage floor that hides tire marks better than bare grey, or a back patio stained in an earth tone. Oklahoma County averages 74 days a year above 90°F, so a lighter colour on a patio that gets afternoon sun stays cooler underfoot.
The City’s monthly building permit summaries list a “Res Driveway Permit” category. Twenty were issued in October 2025 and six in June 2026, several of them to concrete contractors. If a driveway has to be torn out and repoured before it is stained, that is the permit involved. Which office issues it, the fee, and whether patios need one were not stated in the reports, so ask the City before new concrete goes in.
Del City shares Midwest City’s western edge and its border with Tinker, and Oklahoma City is about 10 miles west on I-40.
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