Morrison Bluff, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Morrison Bluff, 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 Morrison Bluff lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Morrison Bluff — the short answer
Morrison Bluff, Arkansas: USDA zone 8a, about 252 days between hard freezes, across 858 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~252
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 858 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 8a is Morrison Bluff's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Morrison Bluff's 252-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Morrison Bluff
Each reading below is measured for Morrison Bluff itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMorrison Bluff runs about 252 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
MeasuredMorrison Bluff sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Morrison Bluff is in
Morrison Bluff sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Morrison Bluff's own centroid rather than borrowed from Logan County.
What Grows in Morrison Bluff
Every plant below cleared Morrison Bluff's own zone 8a and its 252-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Morrison Bluff?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — 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 Morrison Bluff
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Morrison Bluff. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PORKY'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- CIRCLE ""S"" - THE BLUFFUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- THOMPSON SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIESBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- SCRANTON SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- ASM ENTERPRISES LLC DBA 4 WAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- AHNE'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE CENTER INUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- TYSON FOODS - RIVER VALLEY ANIMAL FOODSBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- TYSON FOODS - RIVER VALLEY ANIMAL FOODSToxics Release Inventory · 2.9 mi
- RIVER VALLEY ANIMAL FOODSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- LAZY EARL'S TRUCK PLAZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- TYSON POULTRY - SPADRA FEEDMILLToxics Release Inventory · 3.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Morrison Bluff'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 Morrison Bluff.
Total Sites
215
within ~10 miles of Morrison Bluff
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
17 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Morrison Bluff
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Morrison Bluff
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Morrison Bluff, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 17 sites within ~10 miles of Morrison Bluff. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Morrison Bluff
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 Morrison Bluff average
Your land is one point inside Morrison Bluff
Everything above resolves to Morrison Bluff as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 858 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 Morrison Bluff Average
Morrison Bluff Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Morrison Bluff
- ●One soil character for all of Morrison Bluff
- ●Frost dates read at Morrison Bluff's scale: Mar 13 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Morrison Bluff's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Morrison Bluff
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Morrison Bluff, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Morrison Bluff averages can't show:
We read public map data around Morrison Bluff — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Morrison Bluff average
How we know this about Morrison Bluff
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 Morrison Bluff’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 Morrison Bluff
When does frost risk typically end in Morrison Bluff?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Morrison Bluff typically lands around Mar 13, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Morrison Bluff?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Morrison Bluff typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 252 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Morrison Bluff?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Morrison Bluff sees about 252 frost-free days — roughly Mar 13 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 3 to Nov 6, about 217 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Morrison Bluff?
The federal record around Morrison Bluff is a meaningful one — 215 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (116), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Morrison Bluff?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Morrison Bluff's scale — its 8a band and its 252-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Morrison Bluff'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 Morrison Bluff’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Morrison Bluff's own scale — its own ~252-day season between 28°F freezes, the 858 acres it covers and 215 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Morrison Bluff's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Morrison Bluff's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 13 and Nov 20 and the ~252-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 215 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Morrison Bluff, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Morrison Bluff's boundary and the 858 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~252-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Morrison Bluff's own centroid, the Arkansas ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Morrison Bluff's 858 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Logan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Logan 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 Logan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Morrison Bluff's 858 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Morrison Bluff you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 858 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Morrison Bluff-wide figureread your own land →
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