Georgetown-Quitman County unified government, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government, 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 Georgetown-Quitman County unified government lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Georgetown-Quitman County unified government — the short answer
Georgetown-Quitman County unified government, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 281 days between hard freezes, across 97K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 20
- Quitman County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 28
- Quitman County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~281
- Quitman County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 97K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Quitman County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's 281-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
Each reading below is measured for Georgetown-Quitman County unified government itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsGeorgetown-Quitman County unified government runs about 281 days between hard freezes (read from Quitman County, the closest normal to Georgetown-Quitman County unified government) — 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
MeasuredGeorgetown-Quitman County unified government sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Georgetown-Quitman County unified government is in
Georgetown-Quitman County unified government sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's own centroid rather than borrowed from Quitman County.
What Grows in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
Every plant below cleared Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's own zone 8b and its 281-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Georgetown-Quitman County unified government. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- QUITMAN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- MAJISA JASOL INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- 05P002Nitrate · 4.8 mi
- 05N001Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- TONYAS CORNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- GA DOT #10435Underground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- BALYOGI LIBERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- 05P001Nitrate · 5.8 mi
- McKenzie MineMining · 5.8 mi
- WILLIAM L HINSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- GEORGETOWN CITY HALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- FIRST STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Georgetown-Quitman County unified government'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 Georgetown-Quitman County unified government.
Total Sites
116
within ~10 miles of Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
13 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Georgetown-Quitman County unified government, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 13 sites within ~10 miles of Georgetown-Quitman County unified government. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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.
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Your land is one point inside Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
Everything above resolves to Georgetown-Quitman County unified government as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 97K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Quitman County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Georgetown-Quitman County unified government Average
Georgetown-Quitman County unified government Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
- ●One soil character for all of Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
- ●Frost dates read at Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's scale: Feb 20 to Nov 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Georgetown-Quitman County unified government averages can't show:
We read public map data around Georgetown-Quitman County unified government — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
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 Quitman County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Georgetown-Quitman County unified government
When does frost risk typically end in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government typically lands around Feb 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 Mar 13.
When is the first frost in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government typically arrives around Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 14, so the watching starts about Oct 29 — about 281 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Georgetown-Quitman County unified government sees about 281 frost-free days — roughly Feb 20 through Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 13 to Nov 14, about 246 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Georgetown-Quitman County unified government?
The federal record around Georgetown-Quitman County unified government shows 116 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (69), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.9 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 Georgetown-Quitman County unified government?
From about Oct 29 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's scale — its 8b band and its 281-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Georgetown-Quitman County unified government'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 Georgetown-Quitman County unified government’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's own scale — the 96,792 acres it covers and 116 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 116 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Georgetown-Quitman County unified government, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's boundary and the 96,792 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~281-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Georgetown-Quitman County unified government has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Quitman County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's 96,792 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Quitman County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Quitman County
- The growing challenges every Georgia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Georgia
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Quitman County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Georgetown-Quitman County unified government's 96,792 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Georgetown-Quitman County unified government you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 96,792 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.9 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 Georgetown-Quitman County unified government-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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