What the night sky looks like over Jenks, OK

Satellite radiance puts Jenks 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 30.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Jenks.

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.

How far Jenks is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Shawnee, OK, roughly 70 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

Jenks against the rest of the dataset

Jenks, OK has a population of about 27,869, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Jenks ranks 975 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.