Jamestown, ND: how dark is the sky here?

Jamestown 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. Jamestown's sky is brighter than 41.4% 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.

How far Jamestown is from a meaningfully darker sky

Watertown, SD, about 157 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Jamestown. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Jamestown compares nationally

Jamestown, ND counts roughly 15,789 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Jamestown places 1,322 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.