Corder, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Corder, 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 Corder lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Corder — the short answer
Corder, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 228 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 228 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 Corder's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Corder's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Corder
Each reading below is measured for Corder itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCorder runs about 217 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
MeasuredCorder 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 Corder is in
Corder sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Corder's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lafayette County.
What Grows in Corder
Every plant below cleared Corder's own zone 6b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Corder?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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.
Documented around Corder
Survey cells within 31 miles of Corder checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 338 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Corder
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Corder. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T50N R25W 24BAA1Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- WHITEMAN AFB ALPHA-10Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- CITY OF HIGGINSVILLE (AIRPORT)Underground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- T50N R25W 15BBC1Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- WHITEMAN AFB ALPHA-9Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- CORDER SEW LLCCAFO · 3.3 mi
- PAUL GROSSCAFO · 4.1 mi
- THOMPSON INDUSTRIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- BREAK TIME CONVENIENCE STORE #3037Underground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- REPP MOTOR COUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- ALUMBAUGH HEATING & COOLINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- AMERICAN BANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Corder'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 Corder.
Total Sites
108
within ~10 miles of Corder
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Corder
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Corder
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Corder, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 70 sites within ~10 miles of Corder. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Corder
Everything above resolves to Corder as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 228 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 Corder Average
Corder Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Corder
- ●One soil character for all of Corder
- ●Frost dates read at Corder's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Corder's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Corder
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Corder, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Corder — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Corder
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 Corder’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 Corder
When does frost risk typically end in Corder?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Corder typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Corder?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Corder typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Corder?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Corder sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 20, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Corder?
The federal record around Corder shows 108 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (70), the nearest Nitrate record about 2.1 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 Corder?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Corder's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Corder'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 Corder’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Corder's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 228 acres it covers and 108 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Corder's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Corder's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 3 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 108 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Corder, the closest Nitrate record about 2.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Corder's boundary and the 228 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Corder's own centroid, the Western Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Corder 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 Corder's 228 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lafayette County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lafayette County
- The growing challenges every Missouri grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Missouri
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Lafayette County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Corder's 228 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Corder you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 228 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 2.1 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 Corder-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MissouriCorder sits outside our named growing regions, so Missouri as a whole is its closest context here.
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