Sulphur Springs, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Sulphur Springs's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Sulphur Springs's sky is brighter than 27.9% of the 3,206 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 Sulphur Springs

81 miles from Sulphur Springs, straight-line, sits Red Oak, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Sulphur Springs's own suburban edge band.

Red Oak, 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 Sulphur Springs compares nationally

About 16,891 people live in Sulphur Springs, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Sulphur Springs places 889 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.