Cherokee Village, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Cherokee Village, 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 Cherokee Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cherokee Village — the short answer
Cherokee Village, Arkansas: USDA zone 7a, about 240 days between hard freezes, across 13K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~240
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 13K 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 7a is Cherokee Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cherokee Village's 240-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cherokee Village
Each reading below is measured for Cherokee Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCherokee Village runs about 240 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCherokee Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Cherokee Village is in
Cherokee Village sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Cherokee Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Fulton County.
What Grows in Cherokee Village
Every plant below cleared Cherokee Village's own zone 7a and its 240-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cherokee Village?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Cherokee Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cherokee Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SOUTH PRO SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- OMAHA MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- EASTERN OZARKS REGIONAL HEALTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- NORTH MAINTENANCE SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- NORTH PRO SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- PHILLIPS 66 STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- DAGGETT DELV CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- DAGGETT DEVELOPMENT OFFICE BLDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- AHTD-HIGHLAND AREA HEADQUARTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- VILLAGE SINCLAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- HIGHLAND OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- RED MULE FOOD MARTBrownfields · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cherokee Village'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 Cherokee Village.
Total Sites
56
within ~10 miles of Cherokee Village
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 brownfield sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cherokee Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cherokee Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cherokee Village, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 44 sites within ~10 miles of Cherokee Village. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Cherokee Village
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cherokee Village average
Your land is one point inside Cherokee Village
Everything above resolves to Cherokee Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 13K 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 city 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 Cherokee Village Average
Cherokee Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Cherokee Village
- ●One soil character for all of Cherokee Village
- ●Frost dates read at Cherokee Village's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cherokee Village's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cherokee Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cherokee Village, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cherokee Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cherokee Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cherokee Village average
How we know this about Cherokee Village
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Cherokee Village’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Cherokee Village
When does frost risk typically end in Cherokee Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cherokee Village typically lands around Mar 20, 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 Apr 10.
When is the first frost in Cherokee Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cherokee Village typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 240 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cherokee Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cherokee Village sees about 240 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 1, about 205 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cherokee Village?
The federal record around Cherokee Village shows 56 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (44), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Cherokee Village?
From about Oct 16 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 Nov 15 (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 Nov 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cherokee Village's scale — its 7a band and its 240-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cherokee Village'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 Cherokee Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Cherokee Village's own scale — its own ~240-day season between 28°F freezes, the 13,073 acres it covers and 56 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cherokee Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cherokee Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 15 and the ~240-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 56 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cherokee Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cherokee Village's boundary and the 13,073 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~240-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cherokee Village's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cherokee Village's 13,073 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Fulton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Fulton County
- The growing challenges every Arkansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Arkansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Fulton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cherokee Village's 13,073 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cherokee Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 13,073 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Cherokee Village-wide figureread your own land →
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