With the aim to provide reference for soil resource exploration and scientific fertilization, spatial variation of fertile indices was studied in purple hilly region of Southern Hunan Province by means of Fuzzy theory and GIS. The results showed that: there was some spatial dependence in 8 fertile indices. The nugget to sill ratio of organic matter, total N, available P were 100.0%, 100.0%, 87.9% and 99.9%, respectively, which indicated a weak spatial dependence. However, nugget to sill ratio ofpH, available N, total P and total K were 33.8%, ...