Rockwell Place, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Rockwell Place, 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 Rockwell Place lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rockwell Place — the short answer
Rockwell Place, Texas: USDA zone 7a, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 7a is Rockwell Place's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rockwell Place's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rockwell Place
Each reading below is measured for Rockwell Place itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRockwell Place runs about 217 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
MeasuredRockwell Place sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Rockwell Place is in
Rockwell Place sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Rockwell Place's own centroid rather than borrowed from Randall County.
What Grows in Rockwell Place
Every plant below cleared Rockwell Place's own zone 7a and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rockwell Place?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Rockwell Place
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rockwell Place. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CURRIE DRILLINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- UY-06-57-824Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- BUFFALO CHIP LIQUOR BEER & WINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- PAK A SAK 22Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- JERRY SCOTTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- ALLSTAR FAMILY FORDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- AMBIPAR RESPONSE TEXAS AMARILLOBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- PANHANDLE FORKLIFT & EQUIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- JS COUNTRY CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- SOUTHWEST SALVAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- REX GRIFFINUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- SUN COUNTRY FOOD MART 567Underground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rockwell Place'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 Rockwell Place.
Total Sites
294
within ~10 miles of Rockwell Place
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
8 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rockwell Place
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rockwell Place
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Rockwell Place, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Rockwell Place — CAFO (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (245 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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Your land is one point inside Rockwell Place
Everything above resolves to Rockwell Place 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 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 Rockwell Place Average
Rockwell Place Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Rockwell Place
- ●One soil character for all of Rockwell Place
- ●Frost dates read at Rockwell Place's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rockwell Place's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rockwell Place
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Three things about your lot that Rockwell Place averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rockwell Place — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rockwell Place average
How we know this about Rockwell Place
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 Rockwell Place’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 Rockwell Place
When does frost risk typically end in Rockwell Place?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rockwell Place typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Rockwell Place?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rockwell Place typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rockwell Place?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rockwell Place sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 23, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rockwell Place?
The federal record around Rockwell Place is a meaningful one — 294 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (245), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 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 Rockwell Place?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rockwell Place's scale — its 7a band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rockwell Place'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 Rockwell Place’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Rockwell Place's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,491 acres it covers and 294 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rockwell Place's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Rockwell Place's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 6 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 294 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rockwell Place, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rockwell Place's boundary and the 1,491 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rockwell Place's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rockwell Place's 1,491 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Randall County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Randall 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 Randall County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rockwell Place's 1,491 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rockwell Place you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,491 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 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 Rockwell Place-wide figureread your own land →