Crosbyton, Texas, 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.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Crosbyton, 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 Crosbyton 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 Crosbyton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Crosbyton — the short answer
Crosbyton, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~234
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Crosbyton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Crosbyton's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Crosbyton
Each reading below is measured for Crosbyton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCrosbyton 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
MeasuredCrosbyton 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 Crosbyton is in
Crosbyton sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Crosbyton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Crosby County.
What Grows in Crosbyton
Every plant below cleared Crosbyton's own zone 7b and its 234-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Crosbyton?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — 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 Crosbyton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Crosbyton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WAYNE EDINBURGHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- MCADOO FLYING SERVICEBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- TX DPS HIGHWAY PATROLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- EDINBURGH J KUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CITY OF CROSBYTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #2555Brownfields · 1.3 mi
- CITY AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- ABELL-PREWITTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- JOHNSTON SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- REEVES PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- CROSBYTON ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- EASY STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Crosbyton'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 Crosbyton.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Crosbyton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Crosbyton, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 64 sites within ~10 miles of Crosbyton. 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 Crosbyton
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 Crosbyton average
Your land is one point inside Crosbyton
Everything above resolves to Crosbyton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Crosbyton Average
Crosbyton Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Crosbyton
- ●One soil character for all of Crosbyton
- ●Frost dates read at Crosbyton's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Crosbyton's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Crosbyton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Crosbyton average
How we know this about Crosbyton
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 Crosbyton’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 Crosbyton
When does frost risk typically end in Crosbyton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Crosbyton typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Crosbyton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Crosbyton typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 234 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Crosbyton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Crosbyton sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 30, about 199 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Crosbyton?
The federal record around Crosbyton shows 66 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (64), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Crosbyton?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Crosbyton's scale — its 7b band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Crosbyton'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 Crosbyton’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Crosbyton's own scale — its own ~234-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,351 acres it covers and 66 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Crosbyton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Crosbyton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 13 and the ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 66 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Crosbyton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Crosbyton's boundary and the 1,351 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 Crosbyton's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Crosbyton's 1,351 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Crosby County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Crosby 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 Crosby County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Crosbyton's 1,351 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Crosbyton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,351 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Crosbyton-wide figureread your own land →