Tonkawa Tribal Housing, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tonkawa Tribal Housing, 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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Tonkawa Tribal Housing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Tonkawa Tribal Housing — the short answer
Tonkawa Tribal Housing, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 268 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- 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 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 268 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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tonkawa Tribal Housing's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tonkawa Tribal Housing
Each reading below is measured for Tonkawa Tribal Housing itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTonkawa Tribal Housing runs about 228 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
MeasuredTonkawa Tribal Housing 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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing is in
Tonkawa Tribal Housing sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Tonkawa Tribal Housing's own centroid rather than borrowed from Kay County.
What Grows in Tonkawa Tribal Housing
Every plant below cleared Tonkawa Tribal Housing's own zone 7a and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tonkawa Tribal Housing?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 10 — 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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tonkawa Tribal Housing. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Gas LandUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Eastside ConocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Northern Oklahoma CollegeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- NORTHERN OKLAHOMA COLLEGEBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- Kerr McgeeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- Jiffy Trip #327Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Tonkawa Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- TONKAWA FOUNDRY INC / TONKAWA FOUNDRYToxics Release Inventory · 2.4 mi
- B & L FOUNDRY INCToxics Release Inventory · 2.4 mi
- Stop-N-Go IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- Summers One StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- Auto Mart - Bernard BuchholzUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tonkawa Tribal Housing'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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing.
Total Sites
141
within ~10 miles of Tonkawa Tribal Housing
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tonkawa Tribal Housing
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tonkawa Tribal Housing
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tonkawa Tribal Housing, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Tonkawa Tribal Housing — Toxics Release Inventory (12 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (90 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Tonkawa Tribal Housing
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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing average
Your land is one point inside Tonkawa Tribal Housing
Everything above resolves to Tonkawa Tribal Housing as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 268 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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing Average
Tonkawa Tribal Housing Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Tonkawa Tribal Housing
- ●One soil character for all of Tonkawa Tribal Housing
- ●Frost dates read at Tonkawa Tribal Housing's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tonkawa Tribal Housing's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Tonkawa Tribal Housing
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tonkawa Tribal Housing, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tonkawa Tribal Housing averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tonkawa Tribal Housing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tonkawa Tribal Housing average
How we know this about Tonkawa Tribal Housing
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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing’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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing
When does frost risk typically end in Tonkawa Tribal Housing?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tonkawa Tribal Housing 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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tonkawa Tribal Housing typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tonkawa Tribal Housing?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tonkawa Tribal Housing sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 27, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tonkawa Tribal Housing?
The federal record around Tonkawa Tribal Housing is a meaningful one — 141 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (90), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tonkawa Tribal Housing's scale — its 7a band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tonkawa Tribal Housing'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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Tonkawa Tribal Housing's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 268 acres it covers and 141 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tonkawa Tribal Housing's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tonkawa Tribal Housing's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 10 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 141 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tonkawa Tribal Housing, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tonkawa Tribal Housing's boundary and the 268 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tonkawa Tribal Housing's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tonkawa Tribal Housing's 268 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kay County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kay 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 Kay County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tonkawa Tribal Housing's 268 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tonkawa Tribal Housing you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 268 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 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 Tonkawa Tribal Housing-wide figureread your own land →
More in Oklahoma
Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaTonkawa Tribal Housing sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.
Nearby growing guides