The village is in the Wadi Ara area of the northern Triangle, 4 kilometers northeast of Umm al-Fahm.

During the 19th and first half of the 20th century, Bayada was a small dependancy of the so-called "Fahmawi Commonwealth" established by Hebronite clans belonging to Umm al-Fahm.

The Commonwealth consisted of a network of interspersed communities connected by ties of kinship, and socially, economically and politically affiliated with Umm al Fahm.

The Commonwealth dominated vast sections of Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, Wadi 'Ara and Marj Ibn 'Amir/Jezreel Valley during that time.

[12] Bayada is one of the villages of Wadi Ara that lacked municipal status after the establishment of Israel,[13] under the administration of mukhtars (village headmen) who were appointed by the Interior Ministry[14] until 1992 when the Interior Ministry established the Nahal Iron (i.e. Wadi Ara) Regional council .