Oak Creek, WI's night sky, measured from orbit

Oak Creek 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. That's brighter than 35.1% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Oak Creek

6 miles from Oak Creek, straight-line, sits Caledonia, WI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Oak Creek's own suburban edge band.

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

How Oak Creek compares nationally

About 38,373 people live in Oak Creek, WI, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Oak Creek places 1,120 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.