Sometimes, municipal boundaries are a joke

This is Lehi, Utah. It is a municipality, in Utah County. See all those little black holes in it? Those are county islands: Individual parcels of county land that aren't part of the city.

What a joke. None of them are rural, none of them will ever incorporate as their own cities: They are holdout landowners who didn't want to incorporate.

And then there are the 'cherry stems', with land on the edge of the city that is connected by a tiny corridor ('the cherry stem') to the city proper.

It's an administrative mess. To plan for a few islands in the middle, Lehi has to consult with someone elected to help govern county that is still substantially rural. For an island that shouldn't even fall under county jurisdiction.

There ought to be a law: If your parcel is completely enclosed (surrounded) by an incorporated municipality, it's annexation should be automatic.