Lumberton, TX Night Sky Brightness
Lumberton, TX's night sky, measured from orbit
Lumberton 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. Lumberton's sky is brighter than 34.7% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Lumberton
31 miles from Lumberton, straight-line, sits Port Arthur, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lumberton's own suburban edge band.
Port Arthur, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Lumberton compares nationally
About 14,255 people live in Lumberton, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Lumberton's position, 1,107 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.