Gatesville, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Gatesville's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 33.6% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Gatesville

37 miles from Gatesville, straight-line, sits Robinson, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Gatesville's own suburban edge band.

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

How Gatesville compares nationally

Gatesville, TX counts roughly 16,388 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Gatesville places 1,073 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.