Lamkin, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lamkin, 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 Lamkin 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 Lamkin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lamkin — the short answer
Lamkin, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 271 days between hard freezes, across 433 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 1
- Comanche County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- Comanche County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~271
- Comanche County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 433 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Comanche County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Lamkin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lamkin's 271-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lamkin
Each reading below is measured for Lamkin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLamkin runs about 271 days between hard freezes (read from Comanche County, the closest normal to Lamkin) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredLamkin sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Lamkin is in
Lamkin sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lamkin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Comanche County.
What Grows in Lamkin
Every plant below cleared Lamkin's own zone 8b and its 271-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lamkin?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Lamkin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lamkin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BRAND DAIRYCAFO · 7.4 mi
- HOEKMAN DAIRYCAFO · 8.0 mi
- KIGHTS QUIK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.1 mi
- GIT N GOUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.4 mi
- RON WENZELUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.7 mi
- BROUMLEY HEIFERSCAFO · 8.9 mi
- JOCHUM SCHIEVINK DAIRYCAFO · 9.5 mi
- WINDMILL DAIRYCAFO · 9.6 mi
- WINDMILL FARMSCAFO · 9.6 mi
- FLUIT SOUTH DAIRYCAFO · 9.6 mi
- BILLY LASATER DAIRYCAFO · 9.9 mi
- SUNDANCE DAIRYCAFO · 9.9 mi
Measured from Lamkin'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 Lamkin.
Total Sites
13
within ~10 miles of Lamkin
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
10 concentrated animal feeding operations
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lamkin
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Lamkin
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 Lamkin average
Your land is one point inside Lamkin
Everything above resolves to Lamkin as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 433 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Comanche County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Lamkin Average
Lamkin Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Lamkin
- ●One soil character for all of Lamkin
- ●Frost dates read at Lamkin's scale: Mar 1 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lamkin's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lamkin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lamkin, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lamkin averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lamkin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lamkin average
How we know this about Lamkin
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 Comanche County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Lamkin
When does frost risk typically end in Lamkin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lamkin typically lands around Mar 1, 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 Mar 22.
When is the first frost in Lamkin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lamkin typically arrives around Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 13, so the watching starts about Oct 28 — about 271 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lamkin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lamkin sees about 271 frost-free days — roughly Mar 1 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 22 to Nov 13, about 236 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lamkin?
The federal record around Lamkin is light — 13 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly CAFO entries (10), the nearest CAFO record about 7.4 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lamkin?
From about Oct 28 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lamkin's scale — its 8b band and its 271-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lamkin'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 Lamkin’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Lamkin's own scale — the 433 acres it covers and 13 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lamkin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 13 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lamkin, the closest CAFO record about 7.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lamkin's boundary and the 433 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~271-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lamkin's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Lamkin has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Comanche County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lamkin's 433 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Comanche County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Comanche 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 Comanche County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lamkin's 433 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lamkin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 433 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest CAFO record about 7.4 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 Lamkin-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across TexasLamkin sits outside our named growing regions, so Texas as a whole is its closest context here.