Rugged and wild, Kirke Woods Wildlife Area is central Iowa’s newest public wilderness 6/13/2023 1:10:00 PM View Count 3519 Kirke Woods Wildlife Area, north of Bevington in northeast Madison County, is a new 240-acre mix of oak and hickory timber, and maple and cottonwood bottomlands, a reconstructed prairie and a 30-acre wetland that is open to the public.