Jessup
Jessup, also briefly known as White Canyon, is a ghost town in Churchill County, Nevada and was founded in 1908 after gold and silver mine claims were located.Photo: DJ Cane, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jessup
- Type: Locality
- Description: ghost town in Nevada, United States
- Category: ghost town
- Location: Churchill, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.94852° or 39° 56' 55" northLongitude
-118.87488° or 118° 52' 30" westElevation
1,387 metres (4,551 feet)Open Location Code
85F3W4XG+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 150942153OpenStreetMap Feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
5552282Wikidata ID
Q48791271Jessup Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- English: Jessup, Nevada
- Navajo: Tséłgaiikooh (kinsááʼ)
- Navajo: Tséłgaiikooh
Other Places Named Jessup
Localities in the Area
Landmarks in the Area
- Superior Mining ClaimQuarry
- Gold Ore ClaimsQuarry, 5 km west
- Hard to Find MineQuarry, 6 km northeast
- Copper Queen MineQuarry, 6 km northeast
- White PlainsHistoric site, 7 km southeast
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Jessup. Photo: DJ Cane, CC BY-SA 4.0.