Maramec, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Maramec, 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 Maramec lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Maramec — the short answer
Maramec, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 237 days between hard freezes, across 156 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 19
- 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
- ~237
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 156 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 Maramec's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Maramec's 237-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Maramec
Each reading below is measured for Maramec itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMaramec runs about 237 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
MeasuredMaramec 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 Maramec is in
Maramec sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Maramec's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pawnee County.
What Grows in Maramec
Every plant below cleared Maramec's own zone 7a and its 237-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Maramec?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 19 (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. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Maramec
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Maramec. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Pawnee County Dist #1 ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- Quay NorthMining · 3.4 mi
- Lela North-2Mining · 5.6 mi
- Joe'sUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- 20N-05E-05 ABB 1Nitrate · 6.2 mi
- Fleming's Gibble GasUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- Hallett Race StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- Robert Tyler FarmUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.6 mi
- Kum & Go #880Underground Storage Tanks · 6.6 mi
- 21N-05E-17 AAB 1Nitrate · 7.2 mi
- DAVCO FAB INCBrownfields · 7.2 mi
- Jennings SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Maramec'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 Maramec.
Total Sites
60
within ~10 miles of Maramec
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Maramec
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Maramec
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Maramec, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Maramec — Mining (4 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 Maramec
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 Maramec average
Your land is one point inside Maramec
Everything above resolves to Maramec as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 156 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 Maramec Average
Maramec Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Maramec
- ●One soil character for all of Maramec
- ●Frost dates read at Maramec's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Maramec's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Maramec
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Maramec, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Maramec averages can't show:
We read public map data around Maramec — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Maramec average
How we know this about Maramec
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 Maramec’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 Maramec
When does frost risk typically end in Maramec?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Maramec typically lands around Mar 19, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Maramec?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Maramec 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 237 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Maramec?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Maramec sees about 237 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Oct 28, about 202 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Maramec?
The federal record around Maramec shows 60 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (41), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Maramec?
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 Maramec's scale — its 7a band and its 237-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Maramec'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 Maramec’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Maramec's own scale — its own ~237-day season between 28°F freezes, the 156 acres it covers and 60 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Maramec's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Maramec's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 11 and the ~237-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 60 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Maramec, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Maramec's boundary and the 156 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~237-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Maramec's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Maramec's 156 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 Maramec's 156 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Maramec you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 156 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Maramec-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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