Grandview Plaza, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Grandview Plaza, 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 Grandview Plaza 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 Grandview Plaza — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Grandview Plaza — the short answer
Grandview Plaza, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 542 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 542 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 Grandview Plaza's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Grandview Plaza's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Grandview Plaza
Each reading below is measured for Grandview Plaza itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGrandview Plaza 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
MeasuredGrandview Plaza 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 Grandview Plaza is in
Grandview Plaza sits in the Flint Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Grandview Plaza's own centroid rather than borrowed from Geary County.
What Grows in Grandview Plaza
Every plant below cleared Grandview Plaza's own zone 6b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Grandview Plaza?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Grandview Plaza
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Grandview Plaza. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CFNB-GRANDVIEW PLAZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- 12S 06E 05DAA 01Nitrate · 1700 ft
- HANDY'S LLC - DBA HANDY'S #1Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- 12S 06E 05BCB 01Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- 11S 06E 32DBD 01Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- 12S 06E 06BCAC01Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- GROSS WRECKER SERVICEBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- GROSS WRECKER SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- WILLARD WHORTON & SON EXCAVATIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- GROSS WRECKERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- LEE CHAMP INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- FOXYS BODY SHOPBrownfields · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Grandview Plaza'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 Grandview Plaza.
Total Sites
255
within ~10 miles of Grandview Plaza
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Grandview Plaza
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Grandview Plaza
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Grandview Plaza, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 92 sites within ~10 miles of Grandview Plaza. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Grandview Plaza
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 Grandview Plaza average
Your land is one point inside Grandview Plaza
Everything above resolves to Grandview Plaza as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 542 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 Grandview Plaza Average
Grandview Plaza Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Grandview Plaza
- ●One soil character for all of Grandview Plaza
- ●Frost dates read at Grandview Plaza's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Grandview Plaza's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Grandview Plaza
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Grandview Plaza, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Grandview Plaza averages can't show:
We read public map data around Grandview Plaza — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Grandview Plaza average
How we know this about Grandview Plaza
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 Grandview Plaza’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 Grandview Plaza
When does frost risk typically end in Grandview Plaza?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Grandview Plaza typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Grandview Plaza?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Grandview Plaza typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Grandview Plaza?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Grandview Plaza sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 18, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Grandview Plaza?
The federal record around Grandview Plaza is a meaningful one — 255 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (92), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Grandview Plaza?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Grandview Plaza's scale — its 6b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Grandview Plaza'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 Grandview Plaza’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Grandview Plaza's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 542 acres it covers and 255 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Grandview Plaza's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Grandview Plaza's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 1 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 255 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Grandview Plaza, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Grandview Plaza's boundary and the 542 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 Grandview Plaza's own centroid, the Flint HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Grandview Plaza's 542 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Geary County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Geary 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 Geary County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Grandview Plaza's 542 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Grandview Plaza you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 542 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Grandview Plaza-wide figureread your own land →
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