Cherryvale, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Cherryvale, 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 Cherryvale 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 Cherryvale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Cherryvale — the short answer
Cherryvale, Kansas: USDA zone 7a, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Cherryvale's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cherryvale's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cherryvale
Each reading below is measured for Cherryvale itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCherryvale 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
MeasuredCherryvale 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 Cherryvale is in
Cherryvale sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Cherryvale's own centroid rather than borrowed from Montgomery County.
What Grows in Cherryvale
Every plant below cleared Cherryvale's own zone 7a and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cherryvale?
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 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Cherryvale
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cherryvale. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DEWEY AUTO STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- JP FOOD & FUELUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- BIG HILL GLASS BLDG.Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- VISION WOODWORKSBrownfields · 800 ft
- KERR-MCGEE #6099Underground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- ANR FREIGHT SYSTEM INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- SCHIERLMAN, J. F.Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- ZIP TRIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- M & M MOULDERS, DIV OF GRANDVIEW PRODUCTSBrownfields · 1100 ft
- TED'S SERVICE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- GENE'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cherryvale'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 Cherryvale.
Total Sites
135
within ~10 miles of Cherryvale
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cherryvale
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cherryvale
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cherryvale, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 44 sites within ~10 miles of Cherryvale. 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 Cherryvale
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 Cherryvale average
Your land is one point inside Cherryvale
Everything above resolves to Cherryvale as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 city 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 Cherryvale Average
Cherryvale Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Cherryvale
- ●One soil character for all of Cherryvale
- ●Frost dates read at Cherryvale's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cherryvale's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cherryvale
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cherryvale, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cherryvale averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cherryvale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cherryvale average
How we know this about Cherryvale
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Cherryvale’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Cherryvale
When does frost risk typically end in Cherryvale?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cherryvale typically lands around Mar 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Cherryvale?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cherryvale typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cherryvale?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cherryvale sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 24, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cherryvale?
The federal record around Cherryvale shows 135 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (58), 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 Cherryvale?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cherryvale's scale — its 7a band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cherryvale'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 Cherryvale’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Cherryvale's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,283 acres it covers and 135 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cherryvale's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cherryvale's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 7 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 135 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cherryvale, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cherryvale's boundary and the 1,283 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 Cherryvale's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cherryvale's 1,283 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Montgomery County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Montgomery County
- The growing challenges every Kansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Montgomery County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cherryvale's 1,283 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cherryvale you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,283 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 Cherryvale-wide figureread your own land →