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Shea Site
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Nearest city Embden, North Dakota
Area 3 acres (1.2 ha)
NRHP reference No. 96000817
Added to NRHP July 25, 1996

The Shea Site is a Native American archeological site near Embden, North Dakota. It was the site of a Native American village on a bluff overlooking the Maple River floodplain. It was protected by a deep "dry moat or fortification ditch." The 3-acre (1.2 ha) site was excavated by archaeologists in the mid-1980s and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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