Spanish Fork, UT: how dark is the sky here?

Spanish Fork 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. Spanish Fork's sky is brighter than 26.6% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Spanish Fork

Mapleton, UT, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Spanish Fork. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Spanish Fork compares nationally

Spanish Fork, UT has a population of about 47,809, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Spanish Fork places 850 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.