Stockville, Nebraska, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Stockville, 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 Stockville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Stockville — the short answer
Stockville, Nebraska: USDA zone 5b, about 184 days between hard freezes, across 168 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~184
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 168 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 5b is Stockville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stockville's 184-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stockville
Each reading below is measured for Stockville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStockville runs about 184 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredStockville sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Stockville is in
Stockville sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Stockville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Frontier County.
What Grows in Stockville
Every plant below cleared Stockville's own zone 5b and its 184-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nebraska profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stockville?
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 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
What's on the federal record near Stockville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stockville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WEETH FEEDLOT LTDCAFO · 8.8 mi
- 5N 27W14BB 1Nitrate · 8.9 mi
- MORTENSEN CUSTOM FEEDERSCAFO · 9.0 mi
- MEDICINE CREEK AG INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.4 mi
- FRONTIER COUNTY DISTRICT #2Underground Storage Tanks · 9.4 mi
- GREAT PLAINS TIRE & SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.6 mi
- CURTIS METALSBrownfields · 9.6 mi
- AG VALLEY COOP CURTISUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.6 mi
- UNL NE COLLEGE OF TECHNICAL AGBrownfields · 9.6 mi
Measured from Stockville'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 Stockville.
Total Sites
10
within ~10 miles of Stockville
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stockville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stockville
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
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Your land is one point inside Stockville
Everything above resolves to Stockville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 168 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 Stockville Average
Stockville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Stockville
- ●One soil character for all of Stockville
- ●Frost dates read at Stockville's scale: Apr 18 to Oct 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stockville's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stockville
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We read public map data around Stockville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Stockville
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 Stockville’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 Stockville
When does frost risk typically end in Stockville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stockville typically lands around Apr 18, 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 May 9.
When is the first frost in Stockville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stockville typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 184 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stockville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stockville sees about 184 frost-free days — roughly Apr 18 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 9 to Oct 5, about 149 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stockville?
The federal record around Stockville is light — 10 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (4), the nearest CAFO record about 8.8 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 Stockville?
From about Sep 19 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Stockville's scale — its 5b band and its 184-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stockville'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 Stockville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Stockville's own scale — its own ~184-day season between 28°F freezes, the 168 acres it covers and 10 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stockville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stockville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 18 and Oct 19 and the ~184-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 10 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stockville, the closest CAFO record about 8.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stockville's boundary and the 168 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~184-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Stockville's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Stockville's 168 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Frontier County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Frontier County
- The growing challenges every Nebraska grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Nebraska
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Frontier County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Stockville's 168 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stockville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 168 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest CAFO record about 8.8 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 Stockville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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