Jones, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Jones, 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 Jones lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Jones — the short answer
Jones, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 9K 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 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 9K 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 Jones's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jones's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jones
Each reading below is measured for Jones itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJones runs about 243 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
MeasuredJones 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 Jones is in
Jones sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Jones's own centroid rather than borrowed from Oklahoma County.
What Grows in Jones
Every plant below cleared Jones's own zone 7b and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jones?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 14 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Jones
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jones. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Tiller DxUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- J & I BarUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- Dorman's Feed StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- 13N-01W-34 BAA 1Nitrate · 750 ft
- Vandever'sUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Vacant LotUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Jones Public Schools, Dist. I-9Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Siddhi, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Johnny Pat'sUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Former Green's Kerr-McgeeUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 13N-01W-34 CAB 1Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- Blue & Gold SausageUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jones'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 Jones.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jones
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jones
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Jones, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Jones — Nitrate (128 sites) and PFAS (4 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Jones
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 Jones
Everything above resolves to Jones as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 9K 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 Jones Average
Jones Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Jones
- ●One soil character for all of Jones
- ●Frost dates read at Jones's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jones's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Jones
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jones, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Jones — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jones average
How we know this about Jones
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 Jones’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 Jones
When does frost risk typically end in Jones?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jones 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 Jones?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jones typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jones?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jones sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Oct 31, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jones?
The federal record around Jones is a meaningful one — 428 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (222), 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 Jones?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Jones's scale — its 7b band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jones'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 Jones’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Jones's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 8,748 acres it covers and 428 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jones's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jones's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 14 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 428 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jones, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jones's boundary and the 8,748 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Jones's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jones's 8,748 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Oklahoma County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jones's 8,748 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jones you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 8,748 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 Jones-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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