The city of De Soto and the De Soto Rural Fire Protection District have reached an intergovernmental agreement that ends a dispute that began in 2018 when the city moved to annex the Union Pacific Railroad car shop property. De Soto never annexed the approximately 55-acre parcel, which sits on a narrow strip of land between Main Street and Joachim Creek in unincorporated Jefferson County just east of the city, and City Manager Todd Melkus said De Soto no longer has plans to annex it. The dispute involved years of litigation that culminated in a 2021 Missouri Supreme Court decision that allows the city to annex property without De Soto Rural Fire’s approval.