Springtown, 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.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Springtown, 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 Springtown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Springtown — the short answer
Springtown, Arkansas: USDA zone 7a, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 346 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~229
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 346 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 Springtown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Springtown's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Springtown
Each reading below is measured for Springtown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSpringtown runs about 229 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
MeasuredSpringtown 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 Springtown is in
Springtown sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Springtown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Benton County.
What Grows in Springtown
Every plant below cleared Springtown's own zone 7a and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Springtown?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Springtown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Springtown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 18N32W05CBC3Nitrate · 1400 ft
- 18N32W05CBC2Nitrate · 1400 ft
- KENNY RUTHERFORD R & R FARMBrownfields · 1900 ft
- 19N32W05CDA1Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- AR BE 135Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- 19N32W08ABB1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- 18N32W05BAB1Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- 18N32W05BAB2Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- 19N32W31DDC1Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- 18N32W09BBB1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- 18N32W09BBB2Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- 18N32W10BBB3Nitrate · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Springtown'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 Springtown.
Total Sites
242
within ~10 miles of Springtown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
20 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Springtown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Springtown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Springtown, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Springtown — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (20 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Springtown
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Springtown
Everything above resolves to Springtown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 346 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 Springtown Average
Springtown Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Springtown
- ●One soil character for all of Springtown
- ●Frost dates read at Springtown's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Springtown's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Springtown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Springtown, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Springtown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Springtown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Springtown average
How we know this about Springtown
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 Springtown’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 Springtown
When does frost risk typically end in Springtown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Springtown typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Springtown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Springtown typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Springtown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Springtown sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 26, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Springtown?
The federal record around Springtown is a meaningful one — 242 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (89), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Springtown?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Springtown's scale — its 7a band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Springtown'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 Springtown’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Springtown's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 346 acres it covers and 242 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Springtown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Springtown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 9 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 242 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Springtown, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Springtown's boundary and the 346 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Springtown's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Springtown's 346 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Benton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Benton 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 Benton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Springtown's 346 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Springtown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 346 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Springtown-wide figureread your own land →
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