Jeremiah Kirtley is Sheriff.

James Preston and Benjamin Fowler are Justices of the Peace.

• The county's second oldest town, Caledonia, is incorporated and renamed Petersburg.
• Abner Gaines puts through a stagecoach line from Cincinnati to Lexington.
• The Bank of Burlington is established with $100,000 capitol stock.

• The Carneal family builds Elmwood Hall, the first permanent residence at Ludlow in Kenton County.
• The seven million acre Jackson Purchase is negotiated with the Chickasaw by Isaac Shelby and Andrew Jackson.
• General George Rogers Clark dies.

• The U.S. and Canada agree that the 49th Parallel will serve as their common border.
• Congress resolves that the American flag will have 13 red and white stripes and a blue field with a white star for each state.
• Illinois becomes the 21st state.

• Boone County Tax Lists, 1818.