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.

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 places 1,107 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.