Yorktown, IN Night Sky Brightness
Yorktown, IN's night sky, measured from orbit
Yorktown's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 2.1% 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Yorktown
189 miles from Yorktown, straight-line, sits Plano, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Yorktown's own rural band.
Plano, IL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Yorktown compares nationally
Yorktown, IN counts roughly 11,900 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Yorktown's position, 68 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.