Neosho, MO's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Neosho 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. That's brighter than 13.1% of the 3,206 US 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.

The nearest darker sky to Neosho

27 miles from Neosho, straight-line, sits Bella Vista, AR, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Neosho's own suburban edge band.

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

How Neosho compares nationally

Neosho, MO has a population of about 13,782, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Neosho places 417 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.