Terrytown, Nebraska, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Terrytown, 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 Terrytown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Terrytown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Terrytown — the short answer
Terrytown, Nebraska: USDA zone 5a, about 169 days between hard freezes, across 303 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~169
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 303 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 5a is Terrytown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Terrytown's 169-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Terrytown
Each reading below is measured for Terrytown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTerrytown runs about 169 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
MeasuredTerrytown sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Terrytown is in
Terrytown sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Terrytown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Scotts Bluff County.
What Grows in Terrytown
Every plant below cleared Terrytown's own zone 5a and its 169-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nebraska profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Terrytown?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Terrytown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Terrytown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC - WNB3Brownfields · 2600 ft
- PANHANDLE COOP CAR CARE CENTERBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- PEERLESS TYRE COBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- PANHANDLE COOP PLAZA STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- NEBRASKA TRANSPORT CO INCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- NEBRASKA TRANSPORT CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- GREASE N GOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SAFEWAY STORE 556Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- 22N 55W26DABD2Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- 22N 55W26DABD1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- 22N 55W26DABD3Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- GASAMAT SMOKER FRIENDLY #011Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Terrytown'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 Terrytown.
Total Sites
141
within ~10 miles of Terrytown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Terrytown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Terrytown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Terrytown, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Terrytown — CAFO (11 sites) and Superfund (4 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Terrytown
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 Terrytown
Everything above resolves to Terrytown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 303 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 Terrytown Average
Terrytown Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Terrytown
- ●One soil character for all of Terrytown
- ●Frost dates read at Terrytown's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Terrytown's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Terrytown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Terrytown, Nebraska — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Terrytown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Terrytown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Terrytown average
How we know this about Terrytown
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 Terrytown’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 Terrytown
When does frost risk typically end in Terrytown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Terrytown typically lands around Apr 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 May 17.
When is the first frost in Terrytown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Terrytown typically arrives around Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 28, so the watching starts about Sep 12 — about 169 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Terrytown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Terrytown sees about 169 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Sep 28, about 134 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Terrytown?
The federal record around Terrytown is a meaningful one — 141 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (58), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 Terrytown?
From about Sep 12 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Terrytown's scale — its 5a band and its 169-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Terrytown'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 Terrytown’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Terrytown's own scale — its own ~169-day season between 28°F freezes, the 303 acres it covers and 141 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Terrytown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Terrytown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 12 and the ~169-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 141 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Terrytown, the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Terrytown's boundary and the 303 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~169-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Terrytown's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Terrytown's 303 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Scotts Bluff County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Scotts Bluff 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 Scotts Bluff County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Terrytown's 303 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Terrytown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 303 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 Terrytown-wide figureread your own land →