After half a century below a hundred residents, Haslet more than doubled in size during the 1940s. The Handbook of Texas puts its population at about 175 by the late 1940s, and suggests a reason: war-related jobs in Fort Worth “probably contributed” to the growth.
The war reached the farms directly, too. In 1942 the Singleton family’s 1916 tractor, the first in northern Tarrant County, was dismantled for scrap metal needed for the war.
It was still a village. But it was the first real change in the town’s size since the railroad arrived.
