Chesterhill, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Chesterhill, 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 Chesterhill lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Chesterhill — the short answer
Chesterhill, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 345 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 345 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 Chesterhill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chesterhill's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Chesterhill
Each reading below is measured for Chesterhill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChesterhill runs about 201 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
MeasuredChesterhill 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 Chesterhill is in
Chesterhill sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Chesterhill's own centroid rather than borrowed from Morgan County.
What Grows in Chesterhill
Every plant below cleared Chesterhill's own zone 6b and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Chesterhill?
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 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — 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 Chesterhill
Survey cells within 31 miles of Chesterhill checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 35 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Chesterhill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chesterhill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- THE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- ODNR GIFFORD STATE FORESTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- BERNARD TRIPLETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- GILCHRIST CONVENIENCE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- STOCKPORT ASHLANDUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- RUSSELL & HELEN GARRETTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- OH5800912 Morgan 00276 Production Well 0002Nitrate · 5.2 mi
- EZ-STOP CONVENIENCE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- CLAYTON MAYLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- WESLEY TOWNSHIP TRUSTEESUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- CENTURY WELL SERVICES INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- BARTLETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chesterhill'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 Chesterhill.
Total Sites
34
within ~10 miles of Chesterhill
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chesterhill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chesterhill
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chesterhill, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 26 sites within ~10 miles of Chesterhill. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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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Your land is one point inside Chesterhill
Everything above resolves to Chesterhill as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 345 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 Chesterhill Average
Chesterhill Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Chesterhill
- ●One soil character for all of Chesterhill
- ●Frost dates read at Chesterhill's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chesterhill's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chesterhill
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We read public map data around Chesterhill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Chesterhill
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 Chesterhill’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 Chesterhill
When does frost risk typically end in Chesterhill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Chesterhill typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Chesterhill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Chesterhill typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Chesterhill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Chesterhill sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 17, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Chesterhill?
The federal record around Chesterhill is light — 34 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (26), 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 Chesterhill?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Chesterhill's scale — its 6b band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Chesterhill'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 Chesterhill’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Chesterhill's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 345 acres it covers and 34 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chesterhill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Chesterhill's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 31 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 34 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chesterhill, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chesterhill's boundary and the 345 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chesterhill's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Chesterhill 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 Chesterhill's 345 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Morgan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Morgan County
- The growing challenges every Ohio grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Ohio
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Morgan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chesterhill's 345 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chesterhill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 345 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 Chesterhill-wide figureread your own land →
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