(from the Des Moines inset)
I like clean maps, so this is something that is nice to see. There’s a little spot of Polk County between Johnston and Urbandale that both cities somehow overlooked during their torrid growth. It’s inconvenient for Polk County to respond to the area, and so there is an effort underway for Johnston to annex that little rectangle.
On a related note, Waukee and Clive may be ironing out their lines along Alice’s Road.
(As for that long, populated strip of Polk County between Aurora Avenue and I-35/80 that so obviously should belong to Des Moines…don’t ask.)