Jacksonville, AR's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Jacksonville in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 24.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Jacksonville.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Jacksonville

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Camden, AR, roughly 99 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Jacksonville compares nationally

Jacksonville, AR has a population of about 29,129, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Jacksonville places 793 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.