Mauckport, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Mauckport, 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 Mauckport 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 Mauckport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Mauckport — the short answer
Mauckport, Indiana: USDA zone 7a, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 128 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 128 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 Mauckport's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mauckport's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mauckport
Each reading below is measured for Mauckport itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMauckport runs about 224 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
MeasuredMauckport 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 Mauckport is in
Mauckport sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mauckport's own centroid rather than borrowed from Harrison County.
What Grows in Mauckport
Every plant below cleared Mauckport's own zone 7a and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mauckport?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Mauckport
Survey cells within 31 miles of Mauckport checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 84 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mauckport
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mauckport. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MAUCKPORT TOLL BRIDGE FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- LUCAS CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- River Bluff ResortUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Liquid Transporters IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- F15A0078Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- E15C0005 KY0820041 MEADE 208 PROD. WELL 2Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- E15C0004 KY0820041 MEADE 208 PROD. WELL 1Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- School Bus GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- KY0820041 MEADE 0208 PRODUCTION WELL 8Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- Irvington Bulk Plant 025Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- Ray West Oil Co IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- Dowells GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mauckport'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 Mauckport.
Total Sites
138
within ~10 miles of Mauckport
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mauckport
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mauckport
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mauckport, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 60 sites within ~10 miles of Mauckport. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Mauckport
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 Mauckport average
Your land is one point inside Mauckport
Everything above resolves to Mauckport as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 128 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 Mauckport Average
Mauckport Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Mauckport
- ●One soil character for all of Mauckport
- ●Frost dates read at Mauckport's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mauckport's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mauckport
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mauckport, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mauckport averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mauckport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mauckport average
How we know this about Mauckport
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 Mauckport’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 Mauckport
When does frost risk typically end in Mauckport?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mauckport typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Mauckport?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mauckport typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mauckport?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mauckport sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 25, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mauckport?
The federal record around Mauckport shows 138 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (70), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Mauckport?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mauckport's scale — its 7a band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mauckport'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 Mauckport’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Mauckport's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 128 acres it covers and 138 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mauckport's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mauckport's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 8 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 138 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mauckport, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mauckport's boundary and the 128 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mauckport's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Mauckport 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 Mauckport's 128 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Harrison County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Harrison 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 Harrison County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mauckport's 128 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mauckport you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 128 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Mauckport-wide figureread your own land →