Elk City, OK: how dark is the sky here?

Elk City reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 6.4% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Elk City is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Los Lunas, NM, roughly 418 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

Los Lunas, NM is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Elk City compares nationally

About 11,383 people live in Elk City, OK, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Elk City places 206 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.