It is located on Mississippi Highway 25, 4.5 mi (7.2 km) south of Fulton.

The hamlet is located at a site on the east bank of the Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway (formerly the Tombigbee River), where in the 1800s, Robert Beene operated a ferry.

His father, John Beene, born in 1788, helped survey the area before Itawamba County was formed, and was a member of the county's first Board of Police (elected council).

[4] There is an active natural gas field at Beans Ferry.

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