Shire of Moorabool

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{{Infobox Australian place

| type = lga

| name = Shire of Moorabool

| state = vic

| image = Australia Victoria Moorabool Shire.svg

| caption = Location in Victoria

| pop = 34158

| pop_year = 2018

| pop_footnotes = {{cite web|title=3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2017-18: Population Estimates by Local Government Area (ASGS 2018), 2017 to 2018 |url=http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/3218.02017-18|website=Australian Bureau of Statistics|publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=27 March 2019|access-date=25 October 2019}} Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018.

| est = 1994

| gazetted = 6 May 1994{{cite web |url=http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1994&class=S&page_num=1&state=V&classNum=S23 |title=S23 of 1994: Order estg (Part 4) the Shire of Moorabool |author=Victoria Government Gazette – Online Archive |year=1837–1997 |website=State Library of Victoria |publisher=State Government of Victoria |publication-date=9 May 1994 |page=1 |access-date=10 January 2014}}

| area = 2111

| area_footnotes =

| mayor = Cr Tom Sullivan

| seat = Bacchus Marsh

| region = Grampians

| stategov = Eureka

| stategov2= Macedon

| stategov3 = Melton

| fedgov = Ballarat

| fedgov2 = Hawke

| logo = Moorabool Shire Council logo.svg

| url = http://www.moorabool.vic.gov.au/

| near-n = Hepburn

| near-ne = Macedon Ranges

| near-e = Melton

| near-se = Wyndham

| near-s = Greater Geelong

| near-sw = Golden Plains

| near-w = Ballarat

| near-nw = Hepburn

}}

The Shire of Moorabool is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of {{convert|2111|km2|mi2}} and, in June 2018, had a population of 34,158. It includes the towns of Ballan, Bacchus Marsh, Balliang, Mount Wallace, Myrniong, Blackwood, Greendale, Gordon, Korweinguboora and Mount Egerton, Bungaree, Elaine and Wallace. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Bacchus Marsh, Shire of Ballan and parts of the Shire of Bungaree and City of Werribee.{{cite web |url=http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1994&class=S&page_num=10&state=V&classNum=S97 |title=S97 of 1994: Order altg (Part 22) the Shire of Moorabool |author=Victoria Government Gazette – Online Archive |year=1837–1997 |website=State Library of Victoria |publisher=State Government of Victoria |publication-date=15 December 1994 |page=10 |access-date=10 January 2014}}

The Shire is governed and administered by the Moorabool Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Ballan, it also has service centres located in Bacchus Marsh and Darley. The Shire is named after the Moorabool River, a major geographical feature that meanders through the area, which is named after the Wathawurrung word moo-roo-bul referring to Bunyip-like creature that lives in the river.{{cite book |last1=Massola |first1=Aldo |title=Bunjil's Cave |date=1968 |publisher=Lansdowne Press |isbn=9780391019621}}