Morris Chapel, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Morris Chapel, 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 Morris Chapel lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Morris Chapel — the short answer
Morris Chapel, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 2K 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 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~234
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Morris Chapel's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Morris Chapel's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Morris Chapel
Each reading below is measured for Morris Chapel itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMorris Chapel runs about 234 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
MeasuredMorris Chapel 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 Morris Chapel is in
Morris Chapel sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Morris Chapel's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hardin County.
What Grows in Morris Chapel
Every plant below cleared Morris Chapel's own zone 7b and its 234-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Morris Chapel?
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 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 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Morris Chapel
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Morris Chapel. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- J And J Kountry StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Mrs Jessie FisherUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- ADAMSVILLE WATER SYSTEMPFAS · 3.2 mi
- Grace SpencerUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- White Oak ShellUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- Brush And MatlockUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- Bridges MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- MN:R-011Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO., L.P.Brownfields · 4.8 mi
- Aqua Glass CorpUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- AQUA GLASS CORPORATION (MAIN PLANT)Toxics Release Inventory · 4.8 mi
- Adamsvillie Ele SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Morris Chapel'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 Morris Chapel.
Total Sites
137
within ~10 miles of Morris Chapel
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Morris Chapel
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Morris Chapel
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Morris Chapel, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 103 sites within ~10 miles of Morris Chapel. 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 Morris Chapel
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 Morris Chapel
Everything above resolves to Morris Chapel as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Morris Chapel Average
Morris Chapel Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Morris Chapel
- ●One soil character for all of Morris Chapel
- ●Frost dates read at Morris Chapel's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Morris Chapel's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Morris Chapel
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Three things about your lot that Morris Chapel averages can't show:
We read public map data around Morris Chapel — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Morris Chapel average
How we know this about Morris Chapel
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 Morris Chapel’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 Morris Chapel
When does frost risk typically end in Morris Chapel?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Morris Chapel 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 Morris Chapel?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Morris Chapel 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 234 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Morris Chapel?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Morris Chapel sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 28, about 199 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Morris Chapel?
The federal record around Morris Chapel is a meaningful one — 137 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (103), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Morris Chapel?
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 Morris Chapel's scale — its 7b band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Morris Chapel'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 Morris Chapel’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Morris Chapel's own scale — its own ~234-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,679 acres it covers and 137 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Morris Chapel's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Morris Chapel's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 11 and the ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 137 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Morris Chapel, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Morris Chapel's boundary and the 1,679 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~234-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Morris Chapel's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Morris Chapel's 1,679 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hardin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hardin 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 Hardin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Morris Chapel's 1,679 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Morris Chapel you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,679 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 Morris Chapel-wide figureread your own land →