| Official Name: | Moral Township |
| Settlement Type: | Township |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Shelby |
| Government Type: | Indiana township |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 36.7 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 36.56 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.14 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 4617 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 125.2 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
| Elevation M: | 242 |
| Elevation Ft: | 794 |
| Coordinates: | 39.6489°N -85.8922°W |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 18-50994[3] |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 453652 |
Moral Township is one of fourteen townships in Shelby County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,577 and it contained 1,805 housing units.[4]
Moral Township was organized before 1840.[5]
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which (or 99.62%) is land and (or 0.38%) is water.[4]
On September 9, 1969, Moral Township was the site of the deadliest air disaster in the history of Indiana.On that date, Allegheny Airlines flight 853, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 jetliner, registration N988VJ, collided in midair with a Piper PA-28 registration N7374J which was a light general aviation aircraft. After the collision, flight 853 rolled over and crashed into a soybean field near London, Indiana at over 430 mph; none of the 82 people on board survived. The pilot and sole occupant of the PA-28 were killed upon impact with the tail assembly of the DC-9. With a death toll of 83, this is the deadliest aviation disaster in the history of Indiana.[6]