Sixteen Mile Stand, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Sixteen Mile Stand, 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 Sixteen Mile Stand lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sixteen Mile Stand — the short answer
Sixteen Mile Stand, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 712 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 712 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 Sixteen Mile Stand's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sixteen Mile Stand's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sixteen Mile Stand
Each reading below is measured for Sixteen Mile Stand itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSixteen Mile Stand 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
MeasuredSixteen Mile Stand 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 Sixteen Mile Stand is in
Sixteen Mile Stand sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sixteen Mile Stand's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hamilton County.
What Grows in Sixteen Mile Stand
Every plant below cleared Sixteen Mile Stand's own zone 6b and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sixteen Mile Stand?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — 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 Sixteen Mile Stand
Spotted lanternfly documented 14 miles from Sixteen Mile Stand, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sixteen Mile Stand
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sixteen Mile Stand. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HARPER'S POINT SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- CINCINNATI MICROWAVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- SUNOCO #0043-8739Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- KROGER #304Brownfields · 950 ft
- CAPITOL CLEANERSBrownfields · 1900 ft
- SPEEDWAY #5212Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- GENERAL ELECTRIC GLOBAL OPERATIONSBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- CINCINNATI BELL TELEPHONE CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- KINGS BOARD OF EDUCATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CHILDREN'S HOSPITALUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- GE CORPORATE GLOBAL COMPUTER OPEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- COLUMBIA OLDSMOBILE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sixteen Mile Stand'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 Sixteen Mile Stand.
Total Sites
1,979
within ~10 miles of Sixteen Mile Stand
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
22 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sixteen Mile Stand
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sixteen Mile Stand
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sixteen Mile Stand, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 266 sites within ~10 miles of Sixteen Mile Stand. 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 Sixteen Mile Stand
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sixteen Mile Stand average
Your land is one point inside Sixteen Mile Stand
Everything above resolves to Sixteen Mile Stand as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 712 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 Sixteen Mile Stand Average
Sixteen Mile Stand Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Sixteen Mile Stand
- ●One soil character for all of Sixteen Mile Stand
- ●Frost dates read at Sixteen Mile Stand's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sixteen Mile Stand's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sixteen Mile Stand
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Three things about your lot that Sixteen Mile Stand averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sixteen Mile Stand — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sixteen Mile Stand average
How we know this about Sixteen Mile Stand
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 Sixteen Mile Stand’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 Sixteen Mile Stand
When does frost risk typically end in Sixteen Mile Stand?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sixteen Mile Stand typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Sixteen Mile Stand?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sixteen Mile Stand typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sixteen Mile Stand?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sixteen Mile Stand sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 30, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sixteen Mile Stand?
The federal record around Sixteen Mile Stand runs heavier than most — 1,979 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (927), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Sixteen Mile Stand?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sixteen Mile Stand's scale — its 6b band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sixteen Mile Stand'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 Sixteen Mile Stand’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sixteen Mile Stand's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 712 acres it covers and 1,979 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sixteen Mile Stand's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sixteen Mile Stand's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 13 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,979 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sixteen Mile Stand, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sixteen Mile Stand's boundary and the 712 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 Sixteen Mile Stand's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Sixteen Mile Standlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sixteen Mile Stand's 712 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hamilton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hamilton 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 Hamilton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sixteen Mile Stand's 712 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sixteen Mile Stand you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 712 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Sixteen Mile Stand-wide figureread your own land →
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