Silver Creek is a village in the town of Hanover in Chautauqua County, New York, United States.

The village of Silver Creek was incorporated in 1848, and was an important port on Lake Erie until railroads reduced shipping.

[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.0 km2); all land.

The Penn Central's (formerly the Pennsylvania Railroad, or PRR) Buffalo-Corry (PA)-Pittsburgh line formerly operated through Silver Creek.

The former PRR line was abandoned around 1976 by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission in favor of highway transportation.

As a result of the flood, the New York State Department of Health closed Tri-County Memorial Hospital.

On August 9, 2009, the emergency-squad building, the village fire hall and its vehicles sustained extensive damage in a flash flood; the public works department on North Main Street was destroyed (it has since moved to a new building in the former Bentges distributing plant on Routes 5 and 20 in the Town of Hanover.

The festival began in 1968[8] and features a parade, live music, a midway, a wine tent, children's and adults' activities and a grape stomping.

[9] In 2008, the Silver Creek Grape Festival was featured on the nationally televised Good Morning America.

[10] Diane Sawyer called it "the first and maybe last annual GMA grape stomping contest in honor of Lucille Ball, who was born in the region".

The festival concludes every year with the grand parade which features the festival of grapes royalty, political figures, high school marching bands from regional high schools, fire apparatus from Silver Creek, Sunset Bay, Forestville, Hanover Center, Irving, Sheridan, Lake Erie Beach, Angola, and Fredonia.

Some years the local Shriners club from Gowanda and the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office mounted unit also participate.

In the event of a snow day or an unanticipated need for early dismissal, all local television and radio stations are contacted.

Fire Chief who takes role as Incident Commander at the school determines if 2nd alarm is needed from Fredonia or Dunkirk for their Tower or Ladder truck, County Rescue 71(Fredonia), Hanover Center, Forestville, Irving, and Sheridan.

Once every few years Forestville and/or Silver Creek try to hold a mock DWI Drill just before prom weekend in the spring.

[12] The 2008–2009 boys' varsity football team played at New Era Field in Orchard Park, home of the Buffalo Bills.