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Midwest City

–noun
a city in central Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City. 49,559.
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Midwest City  
A city of central Oklahoma, a residential suburb of Oklahoma City. Population: 55,200.
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Midwest City

city, Oklahoma county, central Oklahoma, U.S., an eastern residential suburb of Oklahoma City. It was founded in 1942 after activation of the Midwest Air Depot (now Tinker Air Force Base), headquarters for the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, adjoining the city to the south. The community was planned as a model city, with curvilinear street design and spacious parks, by builder, developer, and politician W.P. Atkinson with the approval of Air Force officials. Inc. 1943. Pop. (1990) 52,267; (2000) 54,088.

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