The community was named after Roswell Beebe, a railroad executive responsible for bringing the rail line that runs through the city.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.3 square miles (11 km2), all land.

Beebe's district also includes the headquarters of a four-county educational service cooperative named for noted former U.S. Representative Wilbur Mills, and located on the city's Main Street.

In addition, Lighthouse Pentecostal Church in eastern Beebe provides religious-based K-12 and post-secondary education.

U.S. 67/167 is a four-lane freeway that officially became I-57 on November 7, 2024 and connects Beebe with Little Rock to the southwest and with Searcy, Newport, and Walnut Ridge to the northeast.

Beebe is also served by Arkansas Highway 367 (DeWitt Henry Drive), which is a former alignment of US 67 prior to the building of the US 67/US 167 freeway.

Passenger service is available at Clinton National Airport, approximately 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Beebe on the east side of the city of Little Rock.

Beebe made international news in early January 2011 following the death of more than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds and European starlings over the community.

The birds showed signs of physical trauma, leading one ornithologist with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to speculate the blackbirds might have been killed by lightning, high-altitude hail or possibly even fireworks.

[7][8] On January 5, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission confirmed that the incident was caused by a resident setting off professional-grade fireworks, startling the birds into a panic flight.

Several hundred had plunged to their deaths according to the local television station KATV which also reported that its radar had shown a "large mass" over the town.