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We introduce a publicly available dataset covering the entire United States from 2016 to 2024, integrating six spectral bands (Red, Green, Blue, NIR, SWIR1, and SWIR2) from Sentinel-2 imagery with pixel-level land cover annotations from the Dynamic World dataset. This combined resource provides a consistent, high-resolution view of the nation\u2019s landscapes, enabling detailed analysis of both short- and long-term changes. To ease the complexities of remote sensing data handling, we supply comprehensive code for data loading, basic analysis, and visualization. We also demonstrate an example application\u2014semantic segmentation with state-of-the-art models\u2014to evaluate dataset quality and reveal challenges associated with minority classes. 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