Mount Pleasant, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Mount Pleasant in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 68.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mount Pleasant.

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 Mount Pleasant is from a meaningfully darker sky

Sulphur Springs, TX, about 37 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Mount Pleasant. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Sulphur Springs, 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 Mount Pleasant compares nationally

About 16,238 people live in Mount Pleasant, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Mount Pleasant places 2,190 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.