Jacks Creek, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Jacks Creek, 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 Jacks Creek lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Jacks Creek — the short answer
Jacks Creek, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 634 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- 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
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 634 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 Jacks Creek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jacks Creek's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jacks Creek
Each reading below is measured for Jacks Creek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJacks Creek runs about 233 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
MeasuredJacks Creek 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 Jacks Creek is in
Jacks Creek sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Jacks Creek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Chester County.
What Grows in Jacks Creek
Every plant below cleared Jacks Creek's own zone 7b and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jacks Creek?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (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. 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 Jacks Creek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jacks Creek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Melton SsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Lloyd's Package StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Bailey`s StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Jack's CreekUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Wilbert Rainey Paint CleanersUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- INDUSTRIAL PAINT CLEANING SERVICESBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- C and R GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Rush And Son ConstructionUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- Oms #14 (hhc 4-117th In 9m0)Underground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- Conner FarmUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- Talmo Johnson BarnUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- Clellon Williams GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jacks Creek'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 Jacks Creek.
Total Sites
97
within ~10 miles of Jacks Creek
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jacks Creek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jacks Creek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Jacks Creek, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 79 sites within ~10 miles of Jacks Creek. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Jacks Creek
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Jacks Creek
Everything above resolves to Jacks Creek as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 634 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 Jacks Creek Average
Jacks Creek Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Jacks Creek
- ●One soil character for all of Jacks Creek
- ●Frost dates read at Jacks Creek's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jacks Creek's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Jacks Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jacks Creek average
How we know this about Jacks Creek
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 Jacks Creek’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 Jacks Creek
When does frost risk typically end in Jacks Creek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jacks Creek typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Jacks Creek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jacks Creek 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 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jacks Creek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jacks Creek sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 27, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jacks Creek?
The federal record around Jacks Creek shows 97 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (79), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Jacks Creek?
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 Jacks Creek's scale — its 7b band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jacks Creek'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 Jacks Creek’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Jacks Creek's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 634 acres it covers and 97 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jacks Creek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jacks Creek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 10 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 97 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jacks Creek, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jacks Creek's boundary and the 634 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Jacks Creek's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jacks Creek's 634 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Chester County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Chester County
- The growing challenges every Tennessee grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Tennessee
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Chester County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jacks Creek's 634 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jacks Creek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 634 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Jacks Creek-wide figureread your own land →