Stone Creek, 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.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Stone Creek, 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 Stone Creek 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 Stone Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Stone Creek — the short answer
Stone Creek, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 272 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 272 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 Stone Creek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stone Creek's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stone Creek
Each reading below is measured for Stone Creek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStone Creek runs about 211 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
MeasuredStone Creek 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 Stone Creek is in
Stone Creek sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Stone Creek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tuscarawas County.
What Grows in Stone Creek
Every plant below cleared Stone Creek's own zone 6b and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stone Creek?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Stone Creek
Survey cells within 31 miles of Stone Creek checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 32 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Stone Creek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stone Creek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STONE CREEK BRICK COToxics Release Inventory · 450 ft
- STONE CREEK BRICK COBrownfields · 450 ft
- JIM MCCORMICKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- STONE CREEK BELLSTORESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- JEFFERSON TOWNSHIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- OXFORD MININGBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- TUSCARAWAS COUNTY ENGINEERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- FIRST CLASS TRANSPORT INCBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- EUCLID-HITACHIUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- PENN-OHIO COAL CO, D.B.A CENTRAL FUEL COMPANY (0679020004)Toxics Release Inventory · 4.6 mi
- MILLERSBURG EAST FUELING STATUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- RODHE'S GAS N' GOUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stone Creek'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 Stone Creek.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stone Creek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stone Creek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stone Creek, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Stone Creek — Toxics Release Inventory (48 sites) and Superfund (5 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Stone Creek
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 Stone Creek average
Your land is one point inside Stone Creek
Everything above resolves to Stone Creek as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 272 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 Stone Creek Average
Stone Creek Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Stone Creek
- ●One soil character for all of Stone Creek
- ●Frost dates read at Stone Creek's scale: Apr 9 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stone Creek's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Stone Creek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Stone Creek, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Stone Creek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stone Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Stone Creek average
How we know this about Stone Creek
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 Stone Creek’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 Stone Creek
When does frost risk typically end in Stone Creek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stone Creek typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Stone Creek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stone Creek typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stone Creek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stone Creek sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 23, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stone Creek?
The federal record around Stone Creek is a meaningful one — 384 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (206), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record under a tenth of a mile 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 Stone Creek?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Stone Creek's scale — its 6b band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stone Creek'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 Stone Creek’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Stone Creek's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 272 acres it covers and 384 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stone Creek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stone Creek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Nov 6 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 384 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stone Creek, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stone Creek's boundary and the 272 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Stone Creek's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Stone Creek 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 Stone Creek's 272 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tuscarawas County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tuscarawas 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 Tuscarawas County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Stone Creek's 272 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stone Creek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 272 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record under a tenth of a mile 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 Stone Creek-wide figureread your own land →
More in Ohio
Growing region
Nearby growing guides