Notchietown, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, 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 Notchietown, 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 Notchietown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Notchietown — the short answer
Notchietown, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 241 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- 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
- ~241
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Notchietown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Notchietown's 241-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Notchietown
Each reading below is measured for Notchietown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNotchietown runs about 241 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
MeasuredNotchietown 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 Notchietown is in
Notchietown sits in the Boston Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Notchietown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sequoyah County.
What Grows in Notchietown
Every plant below cleared Notchietown's own zone 7b and its 241-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Notchietown?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (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. 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 Notchietown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Notchietown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- US ARMY COE TENKILLER PROJECTBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- Tenkiller Project OfficeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- WEBBERS FALLS LOCK AND DAM 16Brownfields · 2.1 mi
- Tenkiller Power HouseUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- Quik Stop Grocery and GasUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Fin & Feather Resort IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- Strayhorn MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- Parkside Convenient StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Gore Public SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- Gore Bait & TackleUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- Soda Steve's LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- Circle R Food Mart #2Underground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Notchietown'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 Notchietown.
Total Sites
52
within ~10 miles of Notchietown
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Notchietown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Notchietown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Notchietown, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Notchietown — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (39 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Notchietown
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 Notchietown average
Your land is one point inside Notchietown
Everything above resolves to Notchietown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Notchietown Average
Notchietown Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Notchietown
- ●One soil character for all of Notchietown
- ●Frost dates read at Notchietown's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Notchietown's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Notchietown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Notchietown, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Notchietown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Notchietown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Notchietown average
How we know this about Notchietown
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 Notchietown’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 Notchietown
When does frost risk typically end in Notchietown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Notchietown typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Notchietown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Notchietown 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 241 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Notchietown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Notchietown sees about 241 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Oct 31, about 206 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Notchietown?
The federal record around Notchietown shows 52 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (39), the nearest Brownfields record about 1.8 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 Notchietown?
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 Notchietown's scale — its 7b band and its 241-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Notchietown'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 Notchietown’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Notchietown's own scale — its own ~241-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,002 acres it covers and 52 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Notchietown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Notchietown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 14 and the ~241-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 52 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Notchietown, the closest Brownfields record about 1.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Notchietown's boundary and the 5,002 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~241-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Notchietown's own centroid, the Boston MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Notchietown's 5,002 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sequoyah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Notchietown's 5,002 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Notchietown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,002 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 1.8 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 Notchietown-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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