Lawtonka Acres, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Lawtonka Acres, no two yards are alike.
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Lawtonka Acres — the short answer
Lawtonka Acres, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 251 days between hard freezes, across 159 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~251
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 159 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 Lawtonka Acres's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lawtonka Acres's 251-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lawtonka Acres
Each reading below is measured for Lawtonka Acres itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLawtonka Acres runs about 251 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
MeasuredLawtonka Acres 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 Lawtonka Acres is in
Lawtonka Acres sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lawtonka Acres's own centroid rather than borrowed from Comanche County.
What Grows in Lawtonka Acres
Every plant below cleared Lawtonka Acres's own zone 7b and its 251-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lawtonka Acres?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Lawtonka Acres
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lawtonka Acres. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Mcclung Grocery & StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- 04N-13W-36 AAA 1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- Buckhorn ProspectMining · 1.4 mi
- 04N-13W-23 DAD 1Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- Three Boys ClaimMining · 2.7 mi
- Hardin Prospect-2Mining · 2.7 mi
- Hardin Prospect-1Mining · 2.8 mi
- Merry Circle ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- 03N-13W-14 ACB 1Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- 04N-12W-33 BBA 1Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- City Of Lawton-Lakes DivisionUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- School House SloughUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lawtonka Acres'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 Lawtonka Acres.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lawtonka Acres
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lawtonka Acres
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lawtonka Acres, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lawtonka Acres — PFAS (3 sites) and Mining (9 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Lawtonka Acres
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Your land is one point inside Lawtonka Acres
Everything above resolves to Lawtonka Acres as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 159 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 Lawtonka Acres Average
Lawtonka Acres Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Lawtonka Acres
- ●One soil character for all of Lawtonka Acres
- ●Frost dates read at Lawtonka Acres's scale: Mar 13 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lawtonka Acres's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lawtonka Acres
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lawtonka Acres, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lawtonka Acres averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lawtonka Acres — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Lawtonka Acres
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 Lawtonka Acres’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 Lawtonka Acres
When does frost risk typically end in Lawtonka Acres?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lawtonka Acres typically lands around Mar 13, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Lawtonka Acres?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lawtonka Acres typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 251 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lawtonka Acres?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lawtonka Acres sees about 251 frost-free days — roughly Mar 13 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 3 to Nov 5, about 216 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lawtonka Acres?
The federal record around Lawtonka Acres is a meaningful one — 77 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (34), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Lawtonka Acres?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lawtonka Acres's scale — its 7b band and its 251-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lawtonka Acres'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 Lawtonka Acres’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lawtonka Acres's own scale — its own ~251-day season between 28°F freezes, the 159 acres it covers and 77 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lawtonka Acres's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lawtonka Acres's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 13 and Nov 19 and the ~251-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 77 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lawtonka Acres, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lawtonka Acres's boundary and the 159 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~251-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lawtonka Acres's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lawtonka Acres's 159 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Comanche County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Comanche 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 Comanche County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lawtonka Acres's 159 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lawtonka Acres you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 159 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Lawtonka Acres-wide figureread your own land →
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