Lone Chimney, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Lone Chimney, 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 Lone Chimney lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lone Chimney — the short answer
Lone Chimney, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 7a is Lone Chimney's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lone Chimney's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lone Chimney
Each reading below is measured for Lone Chimney itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLone Chimney runs about 235 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
MeasuredLone Chimney sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Lone Chimney is in
Lone Chimney sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lone Chimney's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pawnee County.
What Grows in Lone Chimney
Every plant below cleared Lone Chimney's own zone 7a and its 235-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lone Chimney?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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 Lone Chimney
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lone Chimney. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Kum & Go #880Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 20N-05E-05 ABB 1Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- West Point-NortheastMining · 2.7 mi
- Quay NorthMining · 4.5 mi
- 21N-05E-17 AAB 1Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- Pawnee County Dist #1 ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- Pawnee Co Maintenance HdgUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- Dw Cattle Co. - David WatersUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
- West Point SseMining · 6.5 mi
- Pawnee Fire DepartmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- Det 2 Cbt Spt Co 1/179 InfUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- Pawnee Public SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lone Chimney'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 Lone Chimney.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lone Chimney
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lone Chimney
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lone Chimney, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lone Chimney — Mining (14 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (41 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Lone Chimney
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 Lone Chimney average
Your land is one point inside Lone Chimney
Everything above resolves to Lone Chimney as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Lone Chimney Average
Lone Chimney Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lone Chimney
- ●One soil character for all of Lone Chimney
- ●Frost dates read at Lone Chimney's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lone Chimney's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lone Chimney
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lone Chimney, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lone Chimney averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lone Chimney — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lone Chimney average
How we know this about Lone Chimney
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 Lone Chimney’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 Lone Chimney
When does frost risk typically end in Lone Chimney?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lone Chimney typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Lone Chimney?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lone Chimney typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lone Chimney?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lone Chimney sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 28, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lone Chimney?
The federal record around Lone Chimney shows 65 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (41), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lone Chimney?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lone Chimney's scale — its 7a band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lone Chimney'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 Lone Chimney’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lone Chimney's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,632 acres it covers and 65 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lone Chimney's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lone Chimney's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 11 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 65 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lone Chimney, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lone Chimney's boundary and the 2,632 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lone Chimney's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lone Chimney's 2,632 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pawnee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pawnee 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 Pawnee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lone Chimney's 2,632 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lone Chimney you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,632 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Lone Chimney-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaLone Chimney sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.