Stoney Point, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Stoney Point, 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 Stoney Point lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Stoney Point — the short answer
Stoney Point, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 15K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- 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
- ~229
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 15K 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 Stoney Point's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stoney Point's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stoney Point
Each reading below is measured for Stoney Point itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStoney Point runs about 229 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
MeasuredStoney Point 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 Stoney Point is in
Stoney Point sits in the Boston Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Stoney Point's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sequoyah County.
What Grows in Stoney Point
Every plant below cleared Stoney Point's own zone 7b and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stoney Point?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (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. 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 Stoney Point
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stoney Point. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Hamricks Brushy Corner StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- Brushy SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- Akins Grocery & FeedUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- ROBERT S KERR LOCK AND DAM 15Brownfields · 4.6 mi
- RS KERR MARINA TERMINALBrownfields · 4.6 mi
- ROBERT S KERR LOCK AND DAM 15Superfund · 4.6 mi
- Reed's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- SALLISAWPFAS · 6.3 mi
- H & H FoodsUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.6 mi
- North Big DUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- R.E. AnglenUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- Triple S Petroleum Jc ShockleyUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stoney Point'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 Stoney Point.
Total Sites
49
within ~10 miles of Stoney Point
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stoney Point
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stoney Point
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stoney Point, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 40 sites within ~10 miles of Stoney Point. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Stoney Point
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 Stoney Point average
Your land is one point inside Stoney Point
Everything above resolves to Stoney Point as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 15K 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 Stoney Point Average
Stoney Point Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Stoney Point
- ●One soil character for all of Stoney Point
- ●Frost dates read at Stoney Point's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stoney Point's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stoney Point
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Stoney Point, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Stoney Point averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stoney Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Stoney Point
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 Stoney Point’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 Stoney Point
When does frost risk typically end in Stoney Point?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stoney Point typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Stoney Point?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stoney Point 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 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stoney Point?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stoney Point sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 28, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stoney Point?
The federal record around Stoney Point is a meaningful one — 49 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (40), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.3 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 Stoney Point?
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 Stoney Point's scale — its 7b band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stoney Point'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 Stoney Point’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Stoney Point's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 14,518 acres it covers and 49 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stoney Point's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stoney Point's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 11 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 49 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stoney Point, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stoney Point's boundary and the 14,518 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Stoney Point's own centroid, the Boston MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Stoney Point's 14,518 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 Stoney Point's 14,518 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stoney Point you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 14,518 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.3 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 Stoney Point-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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