Crawfordsville, IN Night Sky Brightness
Crawfordsville, IN's night sky, measured from orbit
Crawfordsville reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Crawfordsville's sky is brighter than 75.7% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Crawfordsville
West Lafayette, IN, about 28 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Crawfordsville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
West Lafayette, IN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Crawfordsville compares nationally
About 16,594 people live in Crawfordsville, IN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Crawfordsville's position, 2,412 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.