Jakes Corner, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Jakes Corner, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Jakes Corner lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Jakes Corner — the short answer
Jakes Corner, Arizona: USDA zone 9a, about 312 days between hard freezes, across 909 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~312
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 909 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Jakes Corner's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jakes Corner's 312-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jakes Corner
Each reading below is measured for Jakes Corner itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJakes Corner runs about 312 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredJakes Corner sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Jakes Corner is in
Jakes Corner sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Jakes Corner's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gila County.
What Grows in Jakes Corner
Every plant below cleared Jakes Corner's own zone 9a and its 312-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jakes Corner?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 14 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
Documented around Jakes Corner
Survey cells within 31 miles of Jakes Corner checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 342 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Jakes Corner
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jakes Corner. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JAKE'S CORNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- A-08-10 27ACB3Nitrate · 1000 ft
- A-07-10 10DBBNitrate · 3.1 mi
- PeacockMining · 3.9 mi
- A-08-10 05CDCNitrate · 4.2 mi
- Hardrock ClaimsMining · 4.8 mi
- Red Bird GroupMining · 4.9 mi
- Bluebird GroupMining · 5.0 mi
- A-07-10 23CDCNitrate · 5.4 mi
- Ord MercuryMining · 5.7 mi
- Ord GroupMining · 5.7 mi
- A-09-10 25CCDNitrate · 5.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jakes Corner's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Jakes Corner.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jakes Corner
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jakes Corner
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Jakes Corner, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Jakes Corner — Mining (33 sites) and Nitrate (16 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Jakes Corner
Everything above resolves to Jakes Corner as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 909 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Jakes Corner Average
Jakes Corner Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Jakes Corner
- ●One soil character for all of Jakes Corner
- ●Frost dates read at Jakes Corner's scale: Feb 5 to Dec 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jakes Corner's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Jakes Corner — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Jakes Corner
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Jakes Corner’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Jakes Corner
When does frost risk typically end in Jakes Corner?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jakes Corner typically lands around Feb 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Feb 26.
When is the first frost in Jakes Corner?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jakes Corner typically arrives around Dec 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 30, so the watching starts about Nov 14 — about 312 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jakes Corner?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jakes Corner sees about 312 frost-free days — roughly Feb 5 through Dec 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 26 to Nov 30, about 277 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jakes Corner?
The federal record around Jakes Corner runs heavier than most — 55 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (33), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Jakes Corner?
From about Nov 14 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Dec 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Dec 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Jakes Corner's scale — its 9a band and its 312-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jakes Corner's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Jakes Corner’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Jakes Corner's own scale — its own ~312-day season between 28°F freezes, the 909 acres it covers and 55 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jakes Corner's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jakes Corner's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 5 and Dec 14 and the ~312-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 55 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jakes Corner, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jakes Corner's boundary and the 909 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~312-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Jakes Corner's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Jakes Corner checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jakes Corner's 909 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gila County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gila County
- The growing challenges every Arizona grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Arizona
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Gila County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jakes Corner's 909 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jakes Corner you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 909 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Jakes Corner-wide figureread your own land →
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