Jessup, also briefly known as White Canyon, is a ghost town in Churchill County, Nevada, United States.

Southern Pacific provided prospectors access to the town by stopping in nearby White Plains.

The Jessup Mining District was quickly established as the discovery was found to be of more worth than earlier expected.

By April of that year, it was reported by the Reno Evening Gazette that lumber was coming in by the carloads and that wooden structures were quickly being erected to replace the tents located at the camp.

There was such a shortage of wood that construction of a hotel and other buildings had to be put on hold until enough lumber could arrive in the town.

A year after it was founded, citizens petitioned the county to build a new road to connect Jessup to Miriam.

This new road would allow heavy loads and ore shipments to access the railroad without traversing the salt flats.