There are numerous telegraph stations that have been important individually in the history of Australia, the United States, and other countries, and there are systems of telegraph stations that have collectively been important during the 19th century and early 20th century.
[7] A list of telegraph stations in the United Kingdom was compiled irregularly, including in 1876, 1882, 1885, and 1889.
[8] Charles B. Barr's 1853 map of telegraph stations "in the United States, the Canadas, and Nova Scotia" showed telegraph lines extending to the west in the U.S. as far as Alexandria, Louisiana, St. Joseph, Missouri, Muscatine, Iowa and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
The Deutschland incident (1902) illustrated the value and issues with wireless telegraph stations.
A 1908 publication by the U.S. Department of the Navy listed on-shore and off-shore wireless telegraph stations of the world.