Morgan's Point Resort, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Morgan's Point Resort, 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 Morgan's Point Resort lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Morgan's Point Resort — the short answer
Morgan's Point Resort, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 287 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 18
- Bell County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 2
- Bell County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~287
- Bell County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 2K 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 Bell County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Morgan's Point Resort's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Morgan's Point Resort's 287-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Morgan's Point Resort
Each reading below is measured for Morgan's Point Resort itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMorgan's Point Resort runs about 287 days between hard freezes (read from Bell County, the closest normal to Morgan's Point Resort) — 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
MeasuredMorgan's Point Resort 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 Morgan's Point Resort is in
Morgan's Point Resort sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Morgan's Point Resort's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Bell County is mostly Texas Blackland Prairies. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Morgan's Point Resort
Every plant below cleared Morgan's Point Resort's own zone 8b and its 287-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Morgan's Point Resort?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Morgan's Point Resort
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Morgan's Point Resort. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WEST POINT GROCERY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- POINT PACKAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- A MIKEYS QUIK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- LIBERTY MARTS OF TEXASUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- MOHAMMAD S KAYANIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- PAYLESS 809 CHATHAMS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- WOODLAND TRAIL COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- PAYLESS 852 SHORT STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- CEFCO 46Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- QUIX 406Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- 7-ELEVEN 35797Underground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- CITY OF TEMPLE AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Morgan's Point Resort'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 Morgan's Point Resort.
Total Sites
481
within ~10 miles of Morgan's Point Resort
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Morgan's Point Resort
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Morgan's Point Resort
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Morgan's Point Resort, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Morgan's Point Resort — Toxics Release Inventory (42 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (357 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Morgan's Point Resort
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 Morgan's Point Resort average
Your land is one point inside Morgan's Point Resort
Everything above resolves to Morgan's Point Resort as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Bell County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 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 Morgan's Point Resort Average
Morgan's Point Resort Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Morgan's Point Resort
- ●One soil character for all of Morgan's Point Resort
- ●Frost dates read at Morgan's Point Resort's scale: Feb 18 to Dec 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Morgan's Point Resort's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Morgan's Point Resort
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Morgan's Point Resort, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Morgan's Point Resort averages can't show:
We read public map data around Morgan's Point Resort — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Morgan's Point Resort average
How we know this about Morgan's Point Resort
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 Bell 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 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 Morgan's Point Resort
When does frost risk typically end in Morgan's Point Resort?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Morgan's Point Resort typically lands around Feb 18, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Morgan's Point Resort?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Morgan's Point Resort typically arrives around Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 18, so the watching starts about Nov 2 — about 287 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Morgan's Point Resort?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Morgan's Point Resort sees about 287 frost-free days — roughly Feb 18 through Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 11 to Nov 18, about 252 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Morgan's Point Resort?
The federal record around Morgan's Point Resort is a meaningful one — 481 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (357), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Morgan's Point Resort?
From about Nov 2 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 Dec 2 (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 Dec 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Morgan's Point Resort's scale — its 8b band and its 287-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Morgan's Point Resort'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 Morgan's Point Resort’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Morgan's Point Resort's own scale — the 1,950 acres it covers and 481 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Morgan's Point Resort's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 481 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Morgan's Point Resort, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Morgan's Point Resort's boundary and the 1,950 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~287-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Morgan's Point Resort sits in the Cross Timbers — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Morgan's Point Resort has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Bell County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Morgan's Point Resort's 1,950 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bell County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bell 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 Bell County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Morgan's Point Resort's 1,950 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Morgan's Point Resort you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,950 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Morgan's Point Resort-wide figureread your own land →
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