LaBarque Creek, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — 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 LaBarque Creek, 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 LaBarque Creek lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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LaBarque Creek — the short answer
LaBarque Creek, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 11K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 11K 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 LaBarque Creek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against LaBarque Creek's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in LaBarque Creek
Each reading below is measured for LaBarque Creek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLaBarque Creek runs about 225 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
MeasuredLaBarque Creek 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 LaBarque Creek is in
LaBarque Creek sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at LaBarque Creek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jefferson County.
What Grows in LaBarque Creek
Every plant below cleared LaBarque Creek's own zone 6b and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in LaBarque Creek?
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 Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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.
Documented around LaBarque Creek
Survey cells within 31 miles of LaBarque Creek checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 266 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near LaBarque Creek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of LaBarque Creek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T43N R03E 34DAA1Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- T43N R03E 22DAA1Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- T43N R03E 22AAA1Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- EX-CANTON RESIDENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- SPEEDIE MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- T43N R02E 36ABC1Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- PACIFIC PWSPFAS · 3.6 mi
- CIRCLE C MHPPFAS · 3.6 mi
- EUREKA PWSPFAS · 3.6 mi
- GATEWAY MUSCLE CARBrownfields · 3.7 mi
- DON MAYFIELD D/B/A O & F SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- GOODYEAR TIRE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from LaBarque Creek'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 LaBarque Creek.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of LaBarque Creek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of LaBarque Creek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around LaBarque Creek, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of LaBarque Creek — PFAS (6 sites) and Superfund (5 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in LaBarque Creek
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 LaBarque Creek
Everything above resolves to LaBarque Creek as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 11K 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 LaBarque Creek Average
LaBarque Creek Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across LaBarque Creek
- ●One soil character for all of LaBarque Creek
- ●Frost dates read at LaBarque Creek's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not LaBarque Creek's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in LaBarque Creek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in LaBarque Creek, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that LaBarque Creek averages can't show:
We read public map data around LaBarque Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the LaBarque Creek average
How we know this about LaBarque Creek
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 LaBarque Creek’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 LaBarque Creek
When does frost risk typically end in LaBarque Creek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in LaBarque Creek typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in LaBarque Creek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in LaBarque Creek typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in LaBarque Creek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, LaBarque Creek sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 23, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in LaBarque Creek?
The federal record around LaBarque Creek is a meaningful one — 291 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (123), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.8 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 LaBarque Creek?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at LaBarque Creek's scale — its 6b band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of LaBarque Creek'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 LaBarque Creek’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at LaBarque Creek's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 11,242 acres it covers and 291 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- LaBarque Creek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- LaBarque Creek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 6 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 291 documented contamination sites on the federal record near LaBarque Creek, the closest Nitrate record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- LaBarque Creek's boundary and the 11,242 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at LaBarque Creek's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around LaBarque Creek 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 LaBarque Creek's 11,242 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jefferson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jefferson 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 Jefferson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among LaBarque Creek's 11,242 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of LaBarque Creek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 11,242 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.8 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 LaBarque Creek-wide figureread your own land →
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