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Hurst grew out of a farming community near old Fort Bird, and in 1879 the Arwine family deeded six acres to the community for a school, a church, and a cemetery - a founding gift still central to the city's history.

The community took its name from William Letchworth Hurst, and for its first decades it stayed tiny, with only about 1,000 residents as late as 1949, when it finally got a post office inside the Souder family's grocery store.

Everything changed in 1951, when Bell Helicopter opened a $3 million plant in Hurst that pioneered the helicopter aviation industry in Texas and set off a growth boom.

Hurst incorporated as a city on September 25, 1952, with a population of about 2,700.

Bell's helicopter division made Hurst its Texas home in 1951, and the company later consolidated thousands of Dallas-Fort Worth employees onto its Hurst corporate campus, anchored by a new headquarters building completed in 2014.

L.D. Bell High School in Hurst, part of the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District, was named in 1956 for Bell Helicopter founder Lawrence D. Bell.

Hurst had a population of 40,413 at the 2020 census, and Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 count 15,763 households, of which about 58% are owner-occupied.

Hurst forms the 'H' of the HEB Mid-Cities trio with Euless and Bedford in northeastern Tarrant County, about 10 miles northeast of downtown Fort Worth.

North East Mall, one of the Dallas-Fort Worth area's major enclosed shopping malls, is located in Hurst and anchors the city's retail economy.

Despite its suburban density of more than 4,000 people per square mile, Hurst covers only about 10 square miles of land.