North Lawrence, 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.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in North Lawrence, 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 North Lawrence lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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North Lawrence — the short answer
North Lawrence, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 217 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 217 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 North Lawrence's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against North Lawrence's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in North Lawrence
Each reading below is measured for North Lawrence itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNorth Lawrence runs about 212 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
MeasuredNorth Lawrence 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 North Lawrence is in
North Lawrence sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at North Lawrence's own centroid rather than borrowed from Stark County.
What Grows in North Lawrence
Every plant below cleared North Lawrence's own zone 6b and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in North Lawrence?
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 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around North Lawrence
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from North Lawrence, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near North Lawrence
Closest first, within ~10 miles of North Lawrence. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NORTH LAWRENCE FIRE DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- INTERSTATE DIESEL SERVICE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- FAA HD8 RCLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- COUNTRYSIDE BODY & WELDING INC.Brownfields · 2.1 mi
- CLAY'S PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- SHEPHERD TRANSMISSION INCBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- NEWMAN OUTPOSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- LYONS DEN GOLF, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- GARRETT'S PENNZOILUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- TUSLAW LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- ODOT CANAL FULTON OUTPOSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- TUSLAW BELLSTORESUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from North Lawrence'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 North Lawrence.
Total Sites
512
within ~10 miles of North Lawrence
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of North Lawrence
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of North Lawrence
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around North Lawrence, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 70 sites within ~10 miles of North Lawrence. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in North Lawrence
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 North Lawrence
Everything above resolves to North Lawrence as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 217 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 North Lawrence Average
North Lawrence Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across North Lawrence
- ●One soil character for all of North Lawrence
- ●Frost dates read at North Lawrence's scale: Apr 11 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not North Lawrence's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in North Lawrence
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in North Lawrence, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that North Lawrence averages can't show:
We read public map data around North Lawrence — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the North Lawrence average
How we know this about North Lawrence
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 North Lawrence’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 North Lawrence
When does frost risk typically end in North Lawrence?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in North Lawrence typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in North Lawrence?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in North Lawrence typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in North Lawrence?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, North Lawrence sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 26, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in North Lawrence?
The federal record around North Lawrence is a meaningful one — 512 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (276), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 North Lawrence?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at North Lawrence's scale — its 6b band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of North Lawrence'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 North Lawrence’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at North Lawrence's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 217 acres it covers and 512 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- North Lawrence's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- North Lawrence's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Nov 9 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 512 documented contamination sites on the federal record near North Lawrence, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- North Lawrence's boundary and the 217 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at North Lawrence's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of North Lawrencelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so North Lawrence's 217 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Stark County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Stark 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 Stark County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among North Lawrence's 217 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of North Lawrence you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 217 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 North Lawrence-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioNorth Lawrence sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
Nearby growing guides