Anton, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Anton, 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 Anton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Anton — the short answer
Anton, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 231 days between hard freezes, across 465 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- 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
- ~231
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 465 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 Anton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Anton's 231-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Anton
Each reading below is measured for Anton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAnton runs about 231 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
MeasuredAnton 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 Anton is in
Anton sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Anton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hockley County.
What Grows in Anton
Every plant below cleared Anton's own zone 7b and its 231-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Anton?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (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 Anton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Anton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BULLDOG ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICESSuperfund · 650 ft
- GOSSETT CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- L & DS QWIK MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- SUN OIL CO LILY LOPERBrownfields · 1200 ft
- CLOSED REST BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- SPADE COOP ANTON DIVISIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- ANTON FERTILIZERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ANTON FARM STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- ANTON IRISH CO2 RE-INJECTION FACILITYToxics Release Inventory · 6.7 mi
- SPADE TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.9 mi
- SPADE COOP SPADEUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.9 mi
- CAPITAL FOUNDRY INCORPORATEDToxics Release Inventory · 8.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Anton'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 Anton.
Total Sites
21
within ~10 miles of Anton
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Anton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Anton
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Anton
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 Anton
Everything above resolves to Anton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 465 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 city 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 Anton Average
Anton Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Anton
- ●One soil character for all of Anton
- ●Frost dates read at Anton's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Anton's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Anton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Anton, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Anton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Anton average
How we know this about Anton
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Anton’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Anton
When does frost risk typically end in Anton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Anton typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Anton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Anton 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 231 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Anton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Anton sees about 231 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 28, about 196 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Anton?
The federal record around Anton is a meaningful one — 21 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (11), the nearest Superfund record about 0.1 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 Anton?
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 Anton's scale — its 7b band and its 231-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Anton'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 Anton’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Anton's own scale — its own ~231-day season between 28°F freezes, the 465 acres it covers and 21 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Anton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Anton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 11 and the ~231-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 21 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Anton, the closest Superfund record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Anton's boundary and the 465 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~231-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Anton's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Anton's 465 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hockley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hockley County
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Hockley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Anton's 465 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Anton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 465 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund record about 0.1 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 Anton-wide figureread your own land →