Soil spatial variability and heterogeneity is a frustrating but important issue in the field-scale description of soil physical, chemical, and hydrological parameters. Geostatistics is a useful tool to study spatial distributions of soil properties. Geostatistics provides efficient and accurate methods for estimating soil variables, designing optimum sampling strategies, and simulating stochastic transport processes in heterogeneous soils. In this paper, the commonly used geostatistical methods and their applications in soil science are reviewed and summarized from over 140 publications.