Ironton, OH Night Sky Brightness
Ironton, OH: how dark is the sky here?
Ironton's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Ironton's sky is brighter than 64.3% of the 3,206 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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
Where to go for a darker sky near Ironton
Ashland, KY, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Ironton. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Ashland, KY is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Ironton compares nationally
Ironton, OH has a population of about 10,147, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ironton places 2,052 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.