Sherman, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Sherman 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. Only 23.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Sherman.

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 Sherman

Sanger, TX, about 35 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Sherman. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Sanger, 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 Sherman compares nationally

About 50,229 people live in Sherman, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Sherman places 763 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.