This dataset is support materials for the publication "Crop type classification, trends, and patterns of central California agricultural fields from 2005 – 2020". This data release is comprised of two child datasets. The first dataset, 'Labeled_CropType_Points', is a shapefile that consists of randomly selected point locations in which crop types were verified using high resolution imagery for each examined year across the study period (2005 - 2020). The second dataset, 'Central_CA_Classified_Croplands', is also a shapefile, but contains polygons of 9 classified crop types derived from a random forest machine learning classifier for central California for each examined year across the study period (2005 - 2020).