Butlerville, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Butlerville, 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 Butlerville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Butlerville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Butlerville — the short answer
Butlerville, Indiana: USDA zone 6b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 239 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 239 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 6b is Butlerville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Butlerville's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Butlerville
Each reading below is measured for Butlerville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredButlerville runs about 213 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
MeasuredButlerville sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Butlerville is in
Butlerville sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Butlerville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jennings County.
What Grows in Butlerville
Every plant below cleared Butlerville's own zone 6b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Butlerville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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.
Documented around Butlerville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Butlerville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 34 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Butlerville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Butlerville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Muscatatuck Urban Training CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 100 ft
- BUTLERVILLE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- MUSCATATUCK URBAN TRAINING CENTERBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- B17 AT MUSCATATUCK TRNG CTR, NR BUTLERVILLE, INNitrate · 1.6 mi
- B3 AT MUSCATATUCK TRNG CTR, NR BUTLERVILLE, INNitrate · 1.7 mi
- B1 AT MUSCATATUCK TRNG CTR, NR BUTLERVILLE, INNitrate · 1.7 mi
- B2 AT MUSCATATUCK TRNG CTR, NR BUTLERVILLE, INNitrate · 1.8 mi
- CHARLIE'S AUTO BODYBrownfields · 4.1 mi
- SELMIER STATE FORESTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- SELMIER STATE FORESTBrownfields · 4.6 mi
- NORTH VERNON MUNICIPAL AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- Dave Omara Contractor IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Butlerville'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 Butlerville.
Total Sites
100
within ~10 miles of Butlerville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
13 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Butlerville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Butlerville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Butlerville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 13 sites within ~10 miles of Butlerville. 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.
Check your specific parcel in Butlerville
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 Butlerville average
Your land is one point inside Butlerville
Everything above resolves to Butlerville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 239 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 Butlerville Average
Butlerville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Butlerville
- ●One soil character for all of Butlerville
- ●Frost dates read at Butlerville's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Butlerville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Butlerville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Butlerville, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Butlerville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Butlerville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Butlerville average
How we know this about Butlerville
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 Butlerville’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 Butlerville
When does frost risk typically end in Butlerville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Butlerville typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Butlerville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Butlerville typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Butlerville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Butlerville sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 20, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Butlerville?
The federal record around Butlerville shows 100 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (45), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Butlerville?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Butlerville's scale — its 6b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Butlerville'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 Butlerville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Butlerville's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 239 acres it covers and 100 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Butlerville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Butlerville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 3 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 100 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Butlerville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Butlerville's boundary and the 239 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Butlerville's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Butlerville 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 Butlerville's 239 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jennings County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jennings County
- The growing challenges every Indiana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Indiana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Jennings County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Butlerville's 239 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Butlerville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 239 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Butlerville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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