| Shake City | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | California#USA |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in California |
| Pushpin Image: | California Locator Map with US.PNG |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | California |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Mendocino County |
| Coordinates: | 39.4311°N -123.4672°W |
| Elevation M: | 161 |
| Elevation Ft: | 528 |
Shake City is an archaic placename in Mendocino County, California. It is located on the California Western Railroad 6.25miles west-northwest of Willits, at an elevation of 528 feet (161 m). Circa 1916, a kind of logging operation called a bark camp was located at or near Shake City.[1] For a handful of years in the mid-1930s, the settlement supported a Mendocino County baseball team called the Shake City Loggers.[2] During the Great Depression years there was enough activity at the logging camp that it attracted vagrants: one unemployed man was charged with robbing a cabin near Shake City,[3] and an "unknown tramp" walking from Fort Bragg was killed on the railroad tracks.[4] Famed forestry professor Emanuel Fritz photographed a -diameter redwood stump from a tree logged near Shake City. There was a railroad tie production facility at Shake City in 1937.[5] The railroad trestle at Shake City burned in 1941 but was promptly repaired.[6] By 1960, Shake City was still a name on a map but its history was a mystery to a Petuluma newspaper columnist.[7] In 1967, Union Lumber Company owned timber stands near Shake City.[8]