title: Amalia, New Mexico
text: # Amalia, New Mexico
  
  Amalia is an unincorporated community in Taos County, New Mexico, United States.
  
  ## Description
  
  Amalia is located near the Colorado border, on New Mexico State Road 196. The elevation is 8,143 feet (2,482 meters).
  
  Amalia has a post office, with the ZIP code 87512. The 87512 ZIP Code Tabulation Area had a population of 230 at the 2000 census.
  
  ## History
  
  Amalia was formerly known as Pina. A post office was established in 1900, before being renamed Amalia in 1919.
  
  In summer of 2018, at a remote site with a small camping trailer within a surrounding wall of car tires, five adults, 11 hungry children (ages 1 to 15), and later a dead child, were found. Court documents stated the children had been trained for shootings at schools. Federal terrorism, kidnapping, and firearms charges were brought against five adults in March 2019.
  
  