State pavement directory
Missouri sits at a seam. North of the Missouri River the ground is glaciated till and loess; south of it the Ozarks are unglaciated limestone and dolomite with sinkholes and springs; and the Bootheel in the far southeast is Mississippi River alluvium so flat and soft that it behaves like the Delta because it is. Add a continental climate that swings from below zero to triple digits in the same year, and pavement here gets worked from both ends.
This page lists pavement contractors serving Missouri cities and explains what actually drives scope: severe freeze-thaw cycling, deicing chemistry in the two metros, expansive and claypan soils in the north and west, karst across the Ozarks, and the fact that Missouri handles contractor licensing locally rather than statewide.
Before you hire: The Pavement Directory does not guarantee contractor performance, pricing, licensing, insurance, or availability. Business information may be submitted by contractors or gathered from public sources and should be independently verified before hiring. Always confirm licensing, insurance, references, scope of work, and written contract terms.
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Grain Valley, Missouri
The company provides asphalt repair, roadways, parking lots, driveways, mill/overlay, concrete, seal coating, crack sealing, striping, and bollards/signage/wheel stops. They operate in the Kansas City Metro Area and state they offer competitive pricing. The company employs a team that works on both commercial and residential projects.
Kansas City, Missouri
The company offers residential asphalt paving, commercial asphalt paving, asphalt driveway paving, asphalt parking lot paving, chip seal paving, chip seal driveway paving, and chip seal parking lot paving. They state they use the latest techniques and materials, employ skilled professionals, and utilize advanced equipment. The business operates from 7AM to 7PM, Monday through Sunday.
Pacific, Missouri
Paving contractor in Pacific, MO offering Asphalt Paving, Concrete Repair, Commercial Paving, and Residential Driveway.
Cassville, Missouri
Paving contractor in Cassville, MO offering Asphalt Paving, Parking Lot Striping.
Kansas City, Missouri
Conway Asphalt Paving provides asphalt paving, concrete flatwork, sealcoating, crack filling, and parking lot striping for commercial, retail, HOA, and industrial clients in the Kansas City metro area. Services include new asphalt installation, full-depth replacement, pothole and surface repair, ADA-compliant ramps and curbing, and pavement marking for code compliance. The company states it is fully insured and locally owned, and highlights community involvement through a sponsorship of the Kansas City Monarchs Baseball Club.
Farmington, Missouri
CP Sealcoating & Striping is a locally owned asphalt maintenance company serving the Mineral Area of southeast Missouri. Its services include asphalt sealcoating, hot and cold crack filling, parking lot striping, handicap markings, new line layout, speed bump installation, concrete parking stops, and lot cleaning. The company states it is fully insured.
Kansas City, Missouri
Fountain City Asphalt provides asphalt paving, sealcoating, crack filling, pothole repair, and parking lot striping for residential and commercial properties. The company serves the greater Kansas City metro area, including cities in both Kansas and Missouri such as Overland Park, Olathe, Lawrence, and Independence. It was founded by Nathan Athans, who grew up working in the asphalt trade with his father before starting the business.
Kansas City, Missouri
J & B Asphalt & Paving provides asphalt paving, overlays, crack sealing, sealcoating, striping, and concrete flatwork for both residential and commercial properties. The company has operated in the Kansas City metro since 1979 and serves communities such as Overland Park, Olathe, Lee's Summit, Independence, and Leawood. Services include driveway installation and replacement, parking lot paving and repair, and pothole repair for a range of property types.
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City Asphalt is a family-owned paving company that has served the Kansas City metro area since 2006. The company provides asphalt paving, overlays, crack-filling, seal coating, striping, and concrete curb and sidewalk work for both residential and commercial properties. Services also include parking lot maintenance and excavation-related asphalt repairs such as patching and milling, with work performed across Missouri and Kansas.
St Joseph, Missouri
Paving contractor in St Joseph, MO offering Asphalt Paving, Asphalt Repair.
Troy, Missouri
The company has operated since 1976 and offers asphalt paving for residential driveways and golf cart paths, commercial projects, and municipal infrastructure. Services include new paving installation and asphalt maintenance. The company states it uses MODOT-approved equipment and follows industry best practices.
Independence, Missouri
Paving contractor in Independence, MO offering Asphalt Paving.
Kansas City, Missouri
Pave It Asphalt Company is a family-owned paving contractor based in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 2001. The company provides asphalt installation, repair, sealcoating, crack sealing, overlay and striping, and winter maintenance services such as plowing and salt application. It serves commercial properties like parking lots as well as residential driveways throughout the greater Kansas City area.
Kansas City, Missouri
Phillips Paving Company has provided asphalt paving, resurfacing, and concrete flatwork services since 1995. The company serves residential, commercial, and industrial clients throughout the Kansas City metro area, including Olathe, Lee's Summit, Liberty, Shawnee, Lenexa, and Overland Park. Services include parking lot repair, striping, ADA compliance work, pavement maintenance, and sealcoating for properties such as retail centers, office complexes, and distribution facilities. The company is based in Kansas City, Missouri, and offers financing options for larger projects.
Kansas City, Missouri
Prime Asphalt and Concrete is a Kansas City-based contractor offering asphalt paving, milling, sealcoating, crack filling, striping, and concrete repair and replacement services. The company primarily serves commercial properties such as parking lots, office complexes, and trucking facilities, with project examples showing large-scale lot resurfacing and overnight work to accommodate business operations. It states 29 years of experience in the trade, dating back to 1994.
Wentzville, Missouri
The company has sealed over 150,000 driveways since 1995. Services include driveway sealing and repairs. The business offers online scheduling and bill payment, provides reminder calls with instructions, and follows up for job satisfaction. The company holds a BBB Accredited A+ rating.
Arnold, Missouri
Spencer Contracting Company has been in business for more than three decades. The company specializes in concrete and asphalt paving, towers, and site prep work, serving markets throughout the Midwest. They employ a dedicated project manager approach and emphasize safety training, quality workmanship, and transparent communication throughout projects.
St Louis, Missouri
The company has operated since 1967 and offers commercial paving services including asphalt paving, concrete work, sealcoating and crack sealing, drainage solutions, and striping with wheel stops and signage. The website indicates the company is locally-owned and operated with tenured and trained employees. According to the site, the company has a 4.9 out of 5 rating based on 78 Google reviews.
Sullivan, Missouri
West Contracting is a family-owned construction company founded in 1956 that offers asphalt paving services, material services, concrete services, grading, and small structures. The company serves government agencies, public and private companies, and HOAs throughout the St. Louis area and East Central Missouri. Services include parking lots, railroad and railyard work, private roadways, airport paving, and chip seal applications.
Missouri combines northern freeze-thaw with southern karst, and it hands contractor licensing to cities and counties rather than a state board.
Regional differences
Missouri does not have one climate or one soil profile, and pavement that performs well in one part of the state can fail early a few hours away. These are the divisions that matter most when scoping paving, repair, or maintenance work.
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Field conditions
Potholes opening rapidly in late winter and early spring, clustered along crack lines and joints that seemed minor the previous autumn.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: If potholes reappear in the same locations each spring, the problem is drainage or base condition rather than the winter itself.
Long, wandering cracks that follow no traffic pattern, open wider through a dry late summer, and partly close again after a wet spring. Curb lines separate from pavement edges.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: A crack that has been patched twice and reopened twice is telling you about the soil, not the patch. Flexible crack treatment plus moisture control usually outperforms another rigid repair.
A rounded depression that keeps deepening in an otherwise sound lot, sometimes with a visible throat opening after a heavy rain.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: Investigate below the pavement before filling a returning depression a second time. Added asphalt is added weight over a void that has not stopped growing.
Concrete aprons, sidewalks, and dumpster pads losing their surface in flakes and small patches, with joints widening and edges crumbling — usually worst where salt-laden slush collects.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: Surface scaling with sound concrete underneath may be repairable; if the deterioration reaches reinforcement or the panel rocks under load, replacement is usually the honest answer.
Broad, gradual settlement across large portions of a lot rather than localized failures, often with pavement that feels soft or flexes under a slow truck.
Likely causes
Timing
Treat this as a planning aid, not a rule. Whether a given treatment can actually be placed on a given day depends on product requirements, surface and nighttime temperatures, the rain forecast, humidity, plant availability, the project specification, and the contractor’s means and methods.
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Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Note where plowed snow is piled and where the meltwater runs — those areas concentrate freeze-thaw damage and show it first in March.
Regional exception: Bootheel and southern Ozark sites see more workable winter days than north Missouri, though wet ground is often the limiting factor rather than temperature.
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Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Distinguish cracks that need sealing from areas that flex under a slow vehicle; the second group needs base repair and should not be overlaid.
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Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Walk drive aisles and dock areas at midday looking for rutting and shoving that only shows when the surface is hot.
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Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Get every open crack sealed before the first hard freeze; a crack left open in November takes on water for the whole winter.
Verification
Missouri does not issue a statewide license for asphalt paving, sealcoating, concrete, or parking lot contractors. The Division of Professional Registration licenses a range of other occupations, but general construction and paving are not among them. That pushes the verification work down to the local level and onto the property owner.
Local licensing is real here, though, and it is not uniform. Municipalities and counties across the St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas operate their own contractor licensing, registration, and permitting programs, and requirements can differ between two adjacent suburbs. If your property sits near a municipal boundary, confirm which jurisdiction's rules apply before the contract is signed rather than after the permit is rejected.
With no state license to check, three things carry the weight. Confirm the exact entity named on the proposal is registered with the Secretary of State and matches the name on the insurance certificate and the contract. Verify general liability and workers' compensation coverage directly with the carrier or agent, active for your work dates. And ask for references on comparable local projects of similar scope and age, then actually call them.
Public work carries its own layer. Projects for a city, county, school district, or the state involve bonding and prequalification requirements that private jobs do not, and prevailing wage rules may apply. Those are separate from anything in this summary and should be confirmed with the awarding agency.
Because Missouri has no state licensing board for paving work, a contractor being 'licensed' can mean anything from a full municipal contractor license to a simple business registration. Ask which jurisdiction issued it and what it actually covers.
Ask for a certificate of insurance sent directly from the carrier or agent rather than a copy forwarded by the contractor, confirm the general liability and workers’ compensation coverage is active on the dates of your work, and ask to be named as certificate holder so you are notified if the policy lapses.
Licensing requirements can turn on project value, scope of work, property location, and whether the job is public or private. City and county rules may add registration, permitting, or bonding requirements beyond anything required at the state level. Verify current requirements with the agency directly before contracting.
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Permitting
Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
Missouri administers construction stormwater permitting through the Department of Natural Resources rather than through the EPA directly. Land disturbance above a threshold acreage generally requires permit coverage along with a stormwater pollution prevention plan and erosion and sediment controls appropriate to the site. Some larger municipalities operate their own programs and handle review locally.
Local detention and water quality requirements are frequently what actually shape a large Missouri paving project. Municipal and county programs across the St. Louis and Kansas City areas apply their own detention volume, release rate, and water quality treatment standards, and reconstructing a lot at a materially different footprint or grade can pull those requirements into play. Ask early whether the work is a repair or a redevelopment in the reviewing agency's eyes, because that distinction often decides whether engineering is needed.
Karst adds a Missouri-specific wrinkle in the Ozarks and parts of the eastern counties. Concentrating stormwater into an infiltration practice above soluble limestone or dolomite can accelerate the movement of soil into subsurface channels, which is the same mechanism behind sinkhole settlement. Infiltration is not automatically the right environmental answer there, and where it is used it deserves geotechnical review.
Missouri municipalities and counties frequently impose stormwater and detention requirements beyond the state minimum, and they differ from one jurisdiction to the next. Confirm with the reviewing agency before design.
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Plain English
| Term | What it means on a Missouri project |
|---|---|
| Type 5 aggregate base | A crushed stone base gradation referenced widely by Missouri suppliers and contractors. Proposals often name the base by type and compacted thickness; that layer usually does more for pavement life than the surface course above it. |
| Bituminous pavement | The term Missouri specifications and many local contractors use for what most owners call asphalt. Seeing it on a proposal is normal and does not imply anything unusual about the material. |
| Subgrade compaction and moisture conditioning | Bringing the soil beneath the pavement to a specified density at a controlled moisture content before anything is placed on it. On Missouri's clay soils this step, done properly, prevents more cracking than any surface decision. |
| Frost depth | How far freezing penetrates into the ground in a typical winter. It varies significantly between north Missouri and the Bootheel, and it influences base thickness, footing depth for site structures, and where frost heave shows up. |
| Cold milling | Grinding off a controlled thickness of existing asphalt before resurfacing, so the new surface matches curb, door, and drainage elevations. Skipping it on a lot that has already been overlaid once is a common source of new ponding. |
| Sinkhole throat | The opening through which soil is draining into a karst void below. Filling the surface depression without addressing the throat and the water reaching it generally means the depression comes back. |
State transportation specifications can provide useful regional terminology and material references, but they do not automatically govern private parking-lot or driveway projects unless incorporated into the contract or required by the applicable jurisdiction.
More definitions are in the pavement glossary.
Property types
Kansas City's intermodal corridor and the I-70 warehouse belt concentrate trailer and container traffic where aprons and drop lots fail years before the parking field shows any wear.
North Missouri and Bootheel elevators absorb a year's worth of heavy truck traffic in a few weeks of harvest, which is a very different design case from steady year-round loading.
Accessible routes, ambulance access, and resident drop-off cannot be closed, so phasing, temporary accessible parking, and surface transitions govern the schedule as much as pavement condition does.
Branson-area lots see extremely concentrated seasonal loading and narrow shoulder-season windows, which pushes major reconstruction into a few weeks a year.
Public work in Missouri brings bonding, prequalification, and potentially prevailing wage requirements, and bus loops carry far heavier loads than the adjacent parking fields.
Before you sign
Not at the state level. Missouri has no statewide license for paving, sealcoating, concrete, or parking lot work. Licensing here is municipal and county-level, and it is genuinely inconsistent — two suburbs on either side of a boundary in the St. Louis or Kansas City area can have different requirements. Ask which jurisdiction covers your address, confirm the contractor holds whatever that jurisdiction requires, and treat entity registration, verified insurance, and real references as the substance of your vetting.
Because the damage has been accumulating invisibly. Water gets into a crack, freezes and expands, widens the crack slightly, and then the cycle repeats through dozens of freezing crossings. Meanwhile the subgrade thaws from the top down and traps moisture in the base. Once the base is saturated and the pavement above it is already fractured, a few days of traffic turns a crack into a hole. The failure looks sudden; the process took months.
Much of the Ozark Plateau is karst — limestone and dolomite that groundwater has dissolved into channels and voids. Soil above those channels can wash downward, and the pavement settles into the space. The distinguishing sign is a rounded depression with relatively little cracking around its edges, unlike base failure, which cracks in an interconnected pattern. Because the void below can continue enlarging, filling the dip with asphalt adds weight without addressing the cause.
That pattern usually points to soil movement rather than traffic. Clay soils across western Missouri shrink as they dry and swell as they take on water, and the seasonal difference can be enough to crack pavement from below. Cracks that follow no wheel path, widen through a dry late summer, and narrow again in spring are the signature. The productive responses are controlling where water enters the soil and using flexible crack treatments, not repeatedly placing rigid patches over ground that keeps moving.
Deicing salt does not chemically attack sound, properly air-entrained concrete, but it makes the surface freeze and thaw far more often while saturated, and that is what causes scaling. The concrete most at risk is young concrete that was salted its first winter, concrete finished in a way that left a weak surface layer, and anywhere slush sits and refreezes. Keeping drainage moving and holding off on deicers over the first winter of new concrete both help more than most owners expect.
Spring through fall covers most of the practical window, and the workable stretch is longer in the Bootheel than in the northern counties. But there is no fixed cutoff date on the calendar. What decides any given day is the specific product's requirements, the surface and overnight temperatures, humidity, the rain forecast, plant availability, and the specification. A mild week in November can be fine; a cold, damp week in April may not be.
Sites in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain sit on deep, soft, saturated silts and clays with limited bearing capacity, and there is often no natural fall to drain the surface. That combination produces broad, gradual settlement rather than the localized failures common on firmer ground. The controlling decisions there are subgrade improvement and designed positive drainage. Adding asphalt thickness over ground that cannot support it is an expensive way to reach the same place again.
It depends on what the reviewing jurisdiction considers the work to be. Repairing and resurfacing in place is often treated as maintenance. Changing the footprint, the grading, or the amount of impervious surface can be treated as redevelopment, which can pull in detention, water quality, and stormwater plan requirements that need a design professional. That determination is worth getting early from the city or county, because it changes both the budget and the schedule substantially.
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Official sources
Contractor licensing
Missouri Division of Professional RegistrationThe state's professional licensing division — useful context for confirming that general paving work is not licensed statewide.
Business registration
Missouri Secretary of State business searchConfirm the exact entity named on your proposal is registered and in good standing in Missouri.
Environmental
Missouri DNR stormwater permittingConstruction stormwater permit coverage, land disturbance thresholds, and erosion control expectations.
Transportation
Missouri Department of TransportationState specifications and materials terminology that shape how Missouri contractors describe work.
Consumer protection
Missouri Attorney General consumer protectionWhere to file a complaint about a contractor or a deceptive business practice.
This page summarizes publicly available information for general education. It is not legal, engineering, or code-compliance advice, and requirements change. Confirm anything that affects your project with the agency with jurisdiction over the property.
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