What the night sky looks like over Iowa Colony, TX

Iowa Colony reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 40.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Iowa Colony.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

Where to go for a darker sky near Iowa Colony

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Texas City, TX, roughly 32 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

Iowa Colony against the rest of the dataset

Iowa Colony, TX has a population of about 17,240, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Iowa Colony ranks 1,290 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.