Kickapoo Site 1, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Kickapoo Site 1, 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 Kickapoo Site 1 lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kickapoo Site 1 — the short answer
Kickapoo Site 1, Kansas: USDA zone 6a, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 321 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~207
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 321 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 6a is Kickapoo Site 1's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kickapoo Site 1's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kickapoo Site 1
Each reading below is measured for Kickapoo Site 1 itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKickapoo Site 1 runs about 207 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
MeasuredKickapoo Site 1 sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Kickapoo Site 1 is in
Kickapoo Site 1 sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Kickapoo Site 1's own centroid rather than borrowed from Brown County.
What Grows in Kickapoo Site 1
Every plant below cleared Kickapoo Site 1's own zone 6a and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kickapoo Site 1?
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 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Kickapoo Site 1
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kickapoo Site 1. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 04S 16E 29ABBB01 SITE 16-1Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- 03S 16E 34DDD 01Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- 04S 16E 29CCC 01Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- AG PARTNERS COOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- 03S 16E 28BDD 01Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- 03S 16E 28BDB 02Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- 03S 16E 28BDB 01Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- 04S 16E 34AAA 01Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- 03S 15E 27CAB 01Nitrate · 5.3 mi
- 05S 15E 12AAA 01Nitrate · 5.5 mi
- 03S 15E 33CBA 01Nitrate · 5.8 mi
- 03S 17E 30BBB 01Nitrate · 5.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kickapoo Site 1'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 Kickapoo Site 1.
Total Sites
106
within ~10 miles of Kickapoo Site 1
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kickapoo Site 1
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kickapoo Site 1
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kickapoo Site 1, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 78 sites within ~10 miles of Kickapoo Site 1. 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 Kickapoo Site 1
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 Kickapoo Site 1 average
Your land is one point inside Kickapoo Site 1
Everything above resolves to Kickapoo Site 1 as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 321 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 Kickapoo Site 1 Average
Kickapoo Site 1 Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Kickapoo Site 1
- ●One soil character for all of Kickapoo Site 1
- ●Frost dates read at Kickapoo Site 1's scale: Apr 5 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kickapoo Site 1's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kickapoo Site 1
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kickapoo Site 1, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kickapoo Site 1 averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kickapoo Site 1 — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kickapoo Site 1 average
How we know this about Kickapoo Site 1
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 Kickapoo Site 1’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 Kickapoo Site 1
When does frost risk typically end in Kickapoo Site 1?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kickapoo Site 1 typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Kickapoo Site 1?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kickapoo Site 1 typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kickapoo Site 1?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kickapoo Site 1 sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 15, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kickapoo Site 1?
The federal record around Kickapoo Site 1 shows 106 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (78), the nearest Nitrate record about 2.3 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 Kickapoo Site 1?
From about Sep 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 Oct 29 (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 Oct 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kickapoo Site 1's scale — its 6a band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kickapoo Site 1'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 Kickapoo Site 1’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kickapoo Site 1's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 321 acres it covers and 106 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kickapoo Site 1's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kickapoo Site 1's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Oct 29 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 106 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kickapoo Site 1, the closest Nitrate record about 2.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kickapoo Site 1's boundary and the 321 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kickapoo Site 1's own centroid, the Western Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kickapoo Site 1's 321 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Brown County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Brown 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 Brown County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kickapoo Site 1's 321 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kickapoo Site 1 you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 321 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 2.3 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 Kickapoo Site 1-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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