Council Hill, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Council Hill, 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 Council Hill lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Council Hill — the short answer
Council Hill, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 244 days between hard freezes, across 203 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~244
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 203 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 7b is Council Hill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Council Hill's 244-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Council Hill
Each reading below is measured for Council Hill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCouncil Hill runs about 244 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
MeasuredCouncil Hill sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Council Hill is in
Council Hill sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Council Hill's own centroid rather than borrowed from Muskogee County.
What Grows in Council Hill
Every plant below cleared Council Hill's own zone 7b and its 244-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Council Hill?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Council Hill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Council Hill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Midway GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Council Hill MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- Midway Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- Gentry Creek StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Meier's General Store LLPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- Virgil E Hood JrUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- June's Stop N GoUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- Boynton Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- H & H Used CarsUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.5 mi
- Hitchita Country StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.5 mi
- Cole Gibble GasUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- Arley L YoungUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Council Hill'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 Council Hill.
Total Sites
53
within ~10 miles of Council Hill
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Council Hill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Council Hill
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Council Hill, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 47 sites within ~10 miles of Council Hill. 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.
Check your specific parcel in Council Hill
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 Council Hill average
Your land is one point inside Council Hill
Everything above resolves to Council Hill as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 203 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 Council Hill Average
Council Hill Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Council Hill
- ●One soil character for all of Council Hill
- ●Frost dates read at Council Hill's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Council Hill's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Council Hill
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Council Hill, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Council Hill averages can't show:
We read public map data around Council Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Council Hill average
How we know this about Council Hill
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 Council Hill’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 Council Hill
When does frost risk typically end in Council Hill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Council Hill typically lands around Mar 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Council Hill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Council Hill typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 244 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Council Hill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Council Hill sees about 244 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Nov 1, about 209 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Council Hill?
The federal record around Council Hill is a meaningful one — 53 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (47), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Council Hill?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Council Hill's scale — its 7b band and its 244-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Council Hill'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 Council Hill’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Council Hill's own scale — its own ~244-day season between 28°F freezes, the 203 acres it covers and 53 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Council Hill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Council Hill's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 15 and the ~244-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 53 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Council Hill, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Council Hill's boundary and the 203 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~244-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Council Hill's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Council Hill's 203 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Muskogee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Muskogee County
- The growing challenges every Oklahoma grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Oklahoma
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Muskogee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Council Hill's 203 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Council Hill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 203 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Council Hill-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaCouncil Hill sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.
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