Jessup, Nevada

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Carson Sink census division. The Survey maps it on the White Plains quadrangle.

Jessup within Churchill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1908 USGS Carson Sink quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1910 USGS Carson Sink quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1951 USGS Desert Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Carson Sink quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS White Plains quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jessup in 2012, burning about 99 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	99 acres	Carson City District Office	DRY

Every fire recorded in Churchill County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Jessup: 16 prospects, 14 past producers, 10 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Copper Queen Mine	Copper, Tungsten	Occurrence	Scheelite
Gold Ore Claims	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold	Occurrence
Hard-To-Find Mine	Copper, Silver, Tungsten	Occurrence	Melaconite
Hard-To-Find Mine	Tungsten, Molybdenum, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Hard-To-Find Mine	Copper, Tungsten, Silver	Prospect
Jessup Gold Prospect	Gold, Silver, Mercury, Copper	Prospect
Jessup Gold Prospect	Silver, Gold, Arsenic, Mercury, Tungsten, Antimony	Past Producer	1908, 1940
NBMG Sample Site 2866	Gold, Silver, Copper	Prospect
Tac	Gold, Tungsten, Copper	Past Producer
Unknwon Name Prospect	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Diatomite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Churchill County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Trinity	6.7 miles	23
Huxley	7.6 miles	23
Ocala	7.8 miles	23
Cressid	8.7 miles	23
Miriam	9.9 miles	23
Fillmore (historical)	11.4 miles	22
Parran	11.5 miles	23
Leete (historical)	17.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856054. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.