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.

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 places 68 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.