Lincolnville, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Lincolnville, 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 Lincolnville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lincolnville — the short answer
Lincolnville, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 144 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- 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
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 144 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 Lincolnville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lincolnville's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lincolnville
Each reading below is measured for Lincolnville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLincolnville runs about 212 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
MeasuredLincolnville 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 Lincolnville is in
Lincolnville sits in the Flint Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lincolnville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marion County.
What Grows in Lincolnville
Every plant below cleared Lincolnville's own zone 6b and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lincolnville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (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. 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 Lincolnville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lincolnville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- K & F DISTRIBUTORS INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- OLD COOP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- K.D.O.T.Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- DIEPENBROCK FARMS, INC.CAFO · 0.6 mi
- USD #397 CENTRE HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- CORNER STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- 18S 03E 24D 01Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- LOST SPRINGS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- ALVAREZ, JOE J.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- 19S 04E 10AAA 01Nitrate · 5.1 mi
- DOUBLE B CATTLECAFO · 5.6 mi
- STEVE SCHILD LIVESTOCK FACILITYCAFO · 7.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lincolnville'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 Lincolnville.
Total Sites
25
within ~10 miles of Lincolnville
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
4 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lincolnville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lincolnville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lincolnville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lincolnville — CAFO (4 sites) and Nitrate (8 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Lincolnville
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 Lincolnville average
Your land is one point inside Lincolnville
Everything above resolves to Lincolnville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 144 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 Lincolnville Average
Lincolnville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lincolnville
- ●One soil character for all of Lincolnville
- ●Frost dates read at Lincolnville's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lincolnville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lincolnville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lincolnville, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lincolnville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lincolnville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lincolnville average
How we know this about Lincolnville
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 Lincolnville’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 Lincolnville
When does frost risk typically end in Lincolnville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lincolnville typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Lincolnville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lincolnville 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 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lincolnville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lincolnville sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 18, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lincolnville?
The federal record around Lincolnville is light — 25 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (10), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lincolnville?
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 Lincolnville's scale — its 6b band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lincolnville'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 Lincolnville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lincolnville's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 144 acres it covers and 25 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lincolnville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lincolnville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 1 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 25 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lincolnville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lincolnville's boundary and the 144 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lincolnville's own centroid, the Flint HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lincolnville's 144 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marion County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marion 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 Marion County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lincolnville's 144 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lincolnville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 144 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Lincolnville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across KansasLincolnville sits outside our named growing regions, so Kansas as a whole is its closest context here.
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